Gladiator fights and modern day distraction, for problems

Gladiators were people forced to fight with each other and other exotic animals. Gladiators were slaves, criminals and Christian. After three years of constanly fighting and if the gladiators were lucky to survive they could earn their freedom.

Gladiators’ bloody fights in Ancient Rome and the modern day distractions for problems are really in common. Gladiators’ fights in Ancient Rome were fought to distract people from their problems. It was an interesting and fun entertainment to not think about their problems. Just like today people have other things to be distracted on. For instance now in days we have T.V, which shows programs where other people get hurt. This shows that people haven’t change a bit and still love to see other people suffer. Also hundreds of computer and video games have a lot of violent content. Think about this, would people prefer to buy a video game that is “boring”, or one that includes violence and action?Also fighting athletes like boxers, are a big resemble as the gladiators in Ancient Rome; the only difference is that in boxing one winner and looser is declared, in a gladiator fight there’s either a winner or a dead person. Indeed, there’s only a bit difference between gladiators fight in Ancient Rome and modern day distractions. Gladiators included blood and killing, and in modern day distraction people tend to love seeing other people suffering but they’re not exactly killed. ( However is more “amusing” to them if it happens)

By:Florangel De Leon and Franklin Bautista

How did the Hellenistic culture start?

The Hellenistic culture started during the period where Phillip II and Alexander the Great ruled Macedonia, a nation located north of Ancient Greece. Phillip II, Alexander’s father had a dream to rule the entire world. He takes over the civilization of Ancient Greece. It was very easy for Phillip II and his army to defeat Greece, because it was divided into various City-States. Therefore it was easier to fight a small army. Unfortunately, Phillip II was killed by one of his soldier, during his way to his daughters wedding. According to the Monarchy government, the son of the king takes over. Alexander the Great continues conquering new lands, just like his father wished. The new nations that Alexander the Great conquered were Persia, Egypt, and all the land of India. The combination of this civilization, including Ancient Greece created a cultural diffusion. All of this different cultures and customs became into one, on what is known today as the Hellenistic culture.

Why was it easy for Phillip II to take over Ancient Greece?

By: Florangel De Leon and Franklin Bautista

Geography of Ancient Greece

The geography in Greece had a major impact on its civilization. The mountainous geography affected the nation. The geography of Ancient Greece led to the development of different city-states. Being separated, each city-state had its own different culture and leader.



What geographic features are found in Greece?

by Franklin Bautista

Sparta vs. Athens

Even though Sparta and Athens are from the same nation, there are a few similarities and various differences. The main difference between Sparta and Athens it’s their government. Sparta has an Oligarchy, which is a government rule by a few people with military control. Athens has a Democracy, to be more specific a direct democracy. A direct democracy, is a government rule by people, through voting. Also Sparta and Athens had different lifestyles. Athens was more concentrated on arts and educations. Sparta was concern with military service. Athens valued the individual term, while Sparta valued the group. In Athens, people did what they desired, however in Sparta they were mandated to do things. In Sparta every man from the age of 7 to the age of approximately 60 years, had to be trained to be a soldier.

However, there were some similarities between Sparta and Athens. One similarity is that both nations are city-states in Ancient Greece, with different leaders and different cultures.

What is an oligarchy? Which city- state had this type of government?

By: Florangel De Leon

Golden Age in Ancient Greece

Pericles, http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=63871287791839782&postID=631349525319726632

A Golden Age is a period of time where everything is peaceful and in prosperity. The Golden Age in Ancient Greece took time in the period where Pericles ruled. He had three specific policies on how to rule the nation of Greece. One of the policies was to strengthened the democracy. Pericles paid all the government workers, so that everyone can work. Also Greece had a direct democracy, which means that the people made the decision made on the nation by voting. Another rule that he conducted was to strengthened Athenian Empire. Pericles organized the Delian League. From this League he used money to make their army strong, and undefeatable. Also he used the trading system to obtain products of grain and other materials, which was essential for their nation. Last but no least, Pericles set the rule of glorifying Athens. He paid artist and architects to make beautiful sculptures for the nation.

What did Pericles do to reinforced the Athenian Empire?

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Hey people ...welcome to our page, I'm Florangel De Leon and my Global partners name is Franklin Bautista. We made this blog for our Global class. Here we would display interesting subjects about Global History! We hope it would be real interesting for all of ya!