ROMAN CIVILIZATION

ROMAN CIVILIZATION
The Colosseum

miércoles, 12 de marzo de 2008

work

Rome civilization was organized as a hierarchical society with free citizens at the top, freedmen above them and at the bottom were slaves. This hierarchical way of society was utilized for everything, for example work because slaves had different kind of jobs that they played compared to free citizens. Slaves had to do the hardest job because foreign wars made them increasingly cheap, so did not earn money. They worked on the land plowing, cultivating, everything that involves agriculture. The economy was dependent on slave labor for both skilled and unskilled work. All slaves were supervised by free citizens (patricians), they owned all privileges, they did not make hard jobs, and they just controlled agriculture. It was not necessary for Patricians to have skills to perform any job because they had all the power, but to have this power they had to have properties, land, and slaves.

In roman civilization the purpose of art is to paint a portrait of the daily life, cities and landscapes most of them was made as a symbol of social status they also made relief sculptures to remember war victories in this civilization the art was hard work mainly architecture that needs too much workers ,most of them slaves.


Rome civilization commanded huge area of land, with a lot of natural and human resources. Their economy was based on agriculture and trade. They had others activities like industrial and manufacturing but they were smaller at that time, so the principal source was the agriculture. Work was depended by society hierarchy because slaves used to work to live in that world where the winner was the person who had the power. In conclusion slaves did not need a specific training because they must be prepared to any kind of work. The primary target of education was to train teenagers in warfare and roman traditions; their parents taught them about civic life, and the sons of nobles were educated to important political figure.

martes, 11 de marzo de 2008

FAMILY TRADITIONS

The Rome mythology explains how Rome was founded. All the Rome history started with a hero Troyano Eans, he fled to Italy because he was escaping from other city.
Then he founded the Lavinium and Alba Longa cities. Subsequently his relatives Romulo and Remo founded Rome.

The roman family not only included a husband, wife and children, but also their slaves. This civilization was considered very strong because roman men were the authority of the house, they were always over the women. One important point is that they could decide about their babies’ life.
If they decided to raise them, their parents had to make a special ceremony to name their babies. They gave three different names to the baby; the first name was common, the second one referred to the clan and the last one referred to the family branch. In addition, on this day they received a gold or leather bulta (necklace).
Talking about other topic of Rome customs for poor and wealthy people; these customs were different to other towns, cultures, civilizations and even in the same Rome civilization; Good example is the poor and wealthy people. For example the funerals for poor people were always simple, but for wealthy people were always extraordinary, they made a procession through the streets of Rome.