MY TRIP TO ROME 

 

 This is Ostia Antica,the old Roman port, about 2,000 years ago. It used to be on the coast but sedimentation has moved the coast about 2 km out.

This mosaic is found at the Forum of the corporations. The mosaics represent the guild, for example, this one possibly was a wild beasts trader.

Ostia made lots of bread and then the bread was shipped up to Rome, or if not, on the Decumanus Maximus which was the main road between Rome and Ostia  

This is a top view of a part of Ostia

This is one of the temples in the forum.

The Baths of Neptune  

This is one of the mosaics of Neptune riding his 4 horses.  

The slaves had to work underneath with the fire to keep the baths warm.

 These were the public latrines. The holes on the front were for the sponge stick for the bum. 

This is the Decumanus Maximus - the main road through Ostia. 

 

This is the Colosseum from above.

The colosseum was in restorations but it was still impressive.

This is the hippodrome which Domitian had built for foot races of which he was a great fan.

 

The Roman Forum was the centre of public life.

Trajan's Forum where they would hand out bread to the common people of Rome.

This was Trajan which he had built when he won the wars against the Dacians.

This was the Pantheon - the temple dedicated to all the gods.

This is Hadrian's tomb, also known as Castel St Angelo. It was built as a mausoleum for Hadrian and his family.

This is the Colosseum.

 I did a history club presentation of Rome on PowerPoint.

 

          

 

MESOAMERICA PRESENTATION.

  

I made some masks of Tlaloc and Quetzalcoatl for the history club presentation because we are talking about Ancient America.

Here I made a timeline of some of the most important civilizations in Mesoamerica and I put the Inca in because it was a very important civilization even though it was down in South America.

Here I made a map of Central America. It was like a jigsaw that the other kids in the club had to put together in the right places.

 The red is the Aztec civilization, the green is the Olmecs and the yellow is the Maya.

Here I am doing the presentation. First I wore the Quetzalcoatl mask then I talked about the timeline.

I talked about the first Americans and how they made their way down into all parts of the Americas.

Then we all put the map together and I showed them where the different cultures lived.

Then I talked about the religion many of the cultures shared such as the importance of the Jaguar, and the gods Quetzalcoatl and Tlaloc.

And finally there was a child sacrifice for the god Tlaloc and everyone volunteered to be sacrificed. The heart was a balloon in a red glove.

Even I, the shaman, ended up being sacrificed!!

MUSEUM OF AMERICA.

I am studying about pre-Colombian history for the History Club but I dont know what I am going to talk about because there is so much to learn.

So this week I went to the Museum of America to see some American artifacts of Aztec, Maya, Inca and other ancient American cultures and I loved it. Here are some examples of the things I saw.