ANCIENT ROME

Today we are going to finish Ancient History learning a lot of facts about the last great civilization of this period of History: ANCIENT ROME

Ancient Rome was a powerful and important civilization that ruled most of today's Europe and part of Africa for nearly 1,000 years.

Rome's culture still has an impact on us today. Let's see some facts!

The Romans came to the Iberian Peninsula and called it Hispania, now España.

Their language was Latin and many languages come from Latin: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian.

They were excellent architects. They built the Colosseum that we still can see in Rome or the Circus Maximus that was a huge stadium for 150,000 people. 

They built aqueducts to carry water to cities. Here in Spain we still have the Acueducto de Segovia, that you can visit in Segovia.

They also built many roads that we still use. Most of the main roads in Spain were the roads the Romans used and here in Madrid we can walk on the Calzada Romana de Cercedilla.

They were also excellent sculptors and artists.

They also wrote many books. Here in Spain lawyers still use the Código Romano.

They believed in many gods and goddesses like the Greeks. Their gods and goddesses  were almost the same but with different names: Zeus was Jupiter, Poseidon was Neptune, Aphrodite was Venus , etc, etc.

As you can imagine we could learn thousands of things about the Romans but for now it's enough. We are now going to watch two videos about their culture. Ready? Here you have.

In the next video you are going to see and learn a lot with real pictures. I hope you enjoy it.