History Readings

There's constantly being made new discoveries in history, thanks to the archaelogists, like the dramatic 1600-square-foot Roman mosaic discovered last year, archaelogists excavate the part of the mosaic and they founs a life size marble head of Aphrodite face down in the soil. They also found a second mosaic, they found a square mosaic floor of geometric designs, fruits and flowers it was a temple mosaic.

Both mosaics will eventually be conserved and protected so visitors can enjoy their beauty.

Archaelogists believe that examinig declassified photograph that are taken during covert surveillance may herald a new era of discovery and that can help to identify a lot of new archaelogical heritage.
They said that they have enough evidence to demostrate the existence of a chronologically complex Roman frontier system.

Not everyone was involved in these findings, just professionals, like the archaelogists, because they were the ones that make this fingdings.

Archaelogists found another Pompeii, a fascinating slice of life and violent death in the Scandinavian Migration Period. During this period Scandinavians cremated their dead so few hole bodies have been found at all.

When the first round of excavation began to ward off looters who have been spotted, archaelogists found six beautiful gilged silver and bronze buckles.

In this article i learn more about the historical things that have been founded in the last years, it's awesome the things that the archaelogists have found, thanks to them we can have prooves of historical facts.

The dangers that these findings in the historic sites are exposed to are changes in the climate, overpopulation, overconsumption, or notequitables distribution of sources may lead to a general crisis.

The Black death(Extra credit video)

The black death or the black plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, killing an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1348–50. The Black Death is thought to have originated in the plains of central Asia, where it then travelled along the Silk Road.
 The plague reduced the world population from an estimated 450 million down to 350–375 million in the 14th century. No medical knowledge existed in medieval England to cope with the disease.

The Black Death had a huge impact on society. Fields went unploughed as the men who usually did this were victims of the disease. Harvests would not have been brought in as the manpower did not exist. Animals would have been lost as the people in a village would not have been around to tend them.

Those who survived the Black Death believed that there was something special about them, the believed that a God had protected them.

Saint Joan of Arc.(extra credit)

"St. Joan of arc is the patroness of soldiers and of france"

When she was young, she heard voices of St.Michael, St.Catherine and St.Margaret. They said "Told joan to go the king of France and help him reconquer his kingdom."

After overcoming opposition from churchmen and courters, the uncrowned King Charles VII sent her to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief mission. She gained prominence when she overcame the dismissive attitude of veteran commanders and caused the lifting of the siege in only nine days, she enjoyed a series of military successes, during wich the king was able to enter rheims and be crowned with her at his side.

In May 1438 as she was attempting to relieve compiegne, she was captured by the burgundians and sold to the English. She refused to retract the assertion that it was the saints of god who had commanded her to do what she had done, she was condemned to death, and burned at the stake on May 30, 1431(19 years old).

Years later, she was exonerate of all guilt and she was canonized in 1920 making official what the people had known for centuries. She was canonized in 1920 by pope Benedict xv.

Ancient Music (extra credit)

Mesomedes of crete was a roman-era greek lyric poet and composer; Mesomedes wrote a panedyric called cotharoedic hyms.

The hymn to the sun is one of the four which preserve the ancient musical notation written over the text. A total of 15 poems by Mesomedes are known.

The hyms of Mesomedes were the only surviving written music from the ancient world.

I already listen the hymn to the sun of Mesomedes, and i think that it looks like opera or something like that, the music of the ancient world is very different than the music of today, but i think it is beautiful music.

Clash of the Titans (2010)

The differences between the movie and the myth are so many that I can not remember all but I will point out the faults that I think are the most notorious. First I must emphasize that the film does not reach a good understanding of the whole by Perseus makes the journey to the underworld to kill Medusa, revenge seems to be in the film but never touched again the death of adoptive parents Perseus miss making a very important point in every movie in this genre to be the meaning and coherence, another very important point is that at no time was a poor fisherman Perseus, opposite to what is shown in film, Perseus myth is adopted by a king ... the king Polidectes. In the myth Perseus embarks on the journey with the motive of getting Polidectes did not force her mom to marry and offers instead the head of Medusa.

In clash of the titans, the ultimate struggle for power, faces men against kings and kings against the men.

But the war between the gods could destroy the world. Perseus, born as a god but raised as a man, he can do nothing to save his family from Hades the vengeful god of the underworld. 
With nothing left to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus and make the earth a hell. Perseus begins a dangerous journey deep into forbidden worlds, leading a group of warriors among those found Draco, an experienced soldier who encourages the rebel Perseus to use their divine powers.

 Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, they will only survive if Perseus accepts his power as a god and challenge his destiny and create his own destiny.

Roman Empire

The Romans did not fully accept the concept of a hereditary emperor, so often when an emperor died, there were power struggles and violence.

There were some good emperors: Hadrian (76-138 BC) and Marcus Aurelius (121-180 BC).

Roman sports: Gladiatorial combat at the colosseum, chariot racing at the circus maximus.