Constantine the Great

Hello, this blog post is about Constantine the Great, the roman emperor. You may have heard of the city Constantinople, but did you know that the city Constantinople was named after Constantin, the Roman Emperor? Pretty cool right? Now onto Constantin and his life. Constantine was the son of “Flavius Valerius Constantius, an army officer,

Ancient Roman medicine

Nowadays, we have quite a solid medical system, but how was it back in the Roman empire? Up to now I never really thought about medicine back in the Roman empire, but after my latest lesson in history I decided to write a essay about it, so let’s begin. The ancient Romans took a lot

Ancient Roman houses

Homes evolved a lot over time, they began as huts and now they are complete structures that we can live in, not just one room. In the Roman times, however, even though they didn’t live in a hut, some Roman’s still lived in very bad houses, at least the poor Romans lived in bad houses.

Alexander the great

Alexander the great is probably the most famous emperor of all time. There is a lot to talk about him, so I will go through these points: first, I will talk about the time when he tamed a horse at the age of 10, second, the time when he became an emperor, third, the territories

Year of the four emperors

The year of the four kings is the year when Rome hade four emperors in one year. Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian were the four emperors that ruled that year. Galba He was in Spain and found out he’s the Emperor. He made sure to secure all the Spanish provinces before leaving, and put someone

The Roman games

Weeks and Romans have their own types of games. The Greeks had Olympics, and Romans, well, in short they had gladiator fights. While the Olympics were more focused on sewing skills and not much killing, The Roman games were all about animals killing humans, humans killing humans humans killing animals, and mostly that. It was

The founding of Carthage

Carthage was founded  814BC when a group of Phoenicians had a bunch of goods and decided to take them across the Mediterranean. They established a number of colonies, and one of those colonies was a place called Carthage. Technically the Carthaginians were actually Phoenicians. At first Carthage started as trade colony. Carthage was in northern

Romulus

In a few words, Romulus was the first king of Rome, he was the one who initially founded Rome. In this essay, I will be summarizing his life. As you know from the introduction, Romulus was the first king of Rome, but how did he become the first king of Rome? Romulus used to have

A Greek mith that I made myself

Personally I really enjoy making my own stories that are not happening in modern times but in a time where the main weapons were swords and knives. So when I saw that I could write my own “Greek myth”, I was very happy. The name of this myth is The Ancient Shadow Dragon. A man

The Persian wars

In the time of the persian wars there were three major empires: Egypt, Greece, and Persia, who was the strongest of them all. Persia was about to have the greatest challenge of all time. First the Greeks would start the war with the Ionian revolt, then the battles of Marathon and Thermopylae, and finally they