miércoles, 30 de abril de 2008

Sports

The ancient Romans created a lot of sport than actuality is play for all the word but some of then have many different. The most popular sport in ancient Romans was:


Ball Game





The Romans had their own type of ball game called the "Roman Ball." Ancient Romans loved to play this ball games. Ball games were the most favorite non-violent sport.It was also the most popular among the Romans. Romans often spent their morning exercises playing games on the field. Boys and even men played in teams. The object was to throw the ball into the middle of the circle and at someone else. If they miss, then the thrower would get a point. No one really knows how it started or what the real name is, but Currently, this sport changed a little for example tody this sport is called " basketball" and, as in the past, this game is played in teams but made up of 6 players and only men play.




Board game























Romans believe it or not, also played board games like us. They played games we also played today. Some of these games were Roman checkers, chess, backgammon, and tic-tac-toe. The Roman played the game of twelve lines and the game of lucky sixes. They also played games such as the Greek and Egyptian games. In our days this kind of games are equal and have the same rules but some of them aren’t playing in our days.





Gladiators

Nowadays sports like gladiators aren’t played because in that time used slaves, and this kind of sports was very violent, this game was about people who played a violent sport in the arena. Gladiators either slay animals such as lions, tigers etc or other gladiators. They were condemned criminals, prisoners of war, or slaves brought for the purpose of gladiatorial combat by a lanista (owner or gladiators). Professional gladiators were free men who volunteered to participate in the games.




Chariot Racing















Chariot Racing was a very popular sport in Ancient Rome. A famous arena to hold the chariot racing is the Circus Maximus. Chariot Racings are cheered on with people from all of the different ranges. The ranges were like from slaves to rich people. Currently this sport have change a lot now is played with cars, and is colled formula 1.



Soccer
Soccer was a natural game. It was natural although the Romans may not have played team soccer. Although there are references that boys were kicking balls in the streets into goals. Without the Romans we may not have had this wonderful game.

















martes, 1 de abril de 2008

comparing between ancient Rome an the world today

The ancient Rome was polytheist, so they have a lot of gods; the heroes were mostly the sons of the gods and they were consider as that because they fight against mythologist monsters and grate armies the most important were Hercules, Hersilia, Dido, Aeneas, Camilla, Faustulus and Horatii. The heroes in our days are the people who fight against the world injuries, like Uribe in Colombia or the Juan Pablo II and the madre Teresa de Calcuta, from the world, because they fight for world peace.
The Romes invent a lot of things but they were mostly focus on the construction. They invent the concrete, the sewages and heating; they were grate engineerings and architects, they construct the Colisseum, amphitheaters, domes for all their gods, underwater port facilities, aqueducts and roads. They make great works, but they did not were good at inventing machines. Today the construction have evolve a lot, but it still use materials from the ancient Rome, like the concrete, and they also modify and perfect the sewages and heatings, but essential things come from the ancient Rome. Today are a lot of inventions, not only machines, also things related with the human body, that’s why this is the century of the inventions.
In the ancient Rome the trade was very different than now in this time people change things through a barter with the Mediterranean, more Later was created in the same rome currency as a way to change this currency was under,Today is not common barter because every governing trade in the new currency.
Today all countries of the world are industry since this is the most important thing for the world economy of most developed countries are those that have more business and drive the economy, but in the ancient Rome hadn’t large factories, in this time the most importation institution was the state.