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HISTORY
HISTORY
History is about exploring the past, in context, through an inquiry process, in order to develop knowledge and understanding of not only your own, but other places in the world (world history).
You may note the connection to geography, through the exploration of people and their culture; however, history utlises this knowledge around cultures, to look at the events, movements and development of those cultures, from the perspective of time frames (timelines).
History, requires students' to follow a process of inquiry, based upon the evidence left behind (primary sources) from the past. Although, due to the nature of historical evidence, by nature, history is interpretative (subjective), relying heavily on the events, dates and primary sources, from which secondary sources are created. -
Historians develop their interpretations of the past, through direct, primary, sources.
Through the development of historical skills, we build our historical knowledge & understanding.
TOPICS
Analysing sources
Gladiators
Etruscan Tomb
Colosseum
ROME - HISTORY
GLADIATORS
ETRUSCAN Tomb
ETRUSCAN Tomb
" Most gladiators were prisoners of war, slaves bought for the purpose, or criminals condemned to serve in the schools (damnati ad ludos).
At a time when three of every five persons did not survive until their twentieth birthday, the odds of a professional gladiator being killed in any particular bout, at least during the first century AD, were perhaps one in ten.
For a full year in Nero's wooden amphitheater in the Campus Martius, no-one died at all, not even criminals (Suetonius, Life of Nero, XII.1). But for those who were to be publicly executed (damnati ad mortem) or for
Christian martyrs who refused to renounce their faith and worship the gods, there was no hope of survival."
This painting is a secondary source
ETRUSCAN Tomb
ETRUSCAN Tomb
ETRUSCAN Tomb
The Gladiatorial games originated from the Etruscan's rites of sacrifice - as depicted on an Etruscan tomb.
The dead were honoured by the spilling (offering) of blood.
The sons of Junius Brutus honoured their father in 264 BCE (BC) by sacrificing slaves (spilling blood), a funeral offering owed to the aristocracy (upper class) upon their death.
The photograph is a record of the primary source.
Colosseum
ETRUSCAN Tomb
Resources on Rome
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from pixaby
Resources on Rome
Resources on Rome
Resources on Rome