Fourteenth Blog

hey miss this is my tour i had trouble with the 360 views to work and stuff so i just took them out hope that is okay here is the link

http://docs.google.com/a/mercymackay.qld.edu.au/leaf?id=0Bz-CJLfNAKNHNDNkMTMwYWYtOGI5NC00ODM4LThjNTMtOGFhOGMyN2ZiZmFh&hl=en

Thirteenth Blog

I have now completed my speech but I made a few changes to my buildings. My biuldings are now

• Colosseum
• Circus Maximus
• Theatre of Marcellus
• Ludus Magnus
• Stadium of Domitian

I have done a lot of research this afternoon and am about to start recording my google earth tour :)

Twelfth Blog

Here are some of the websites I have been getting information off for my speech. Miss Langford i have worked hard and stuff i know i was behind but I will get it done and I hadn't done no research just not so much on my new buildings cause i changed buildings halfway. oh well I'm pretty much done my new speech.

http://library.thinkquest.org/26602/entertainment.htm

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/colosseum/a/Colosseum.htm

http://archaeology.suite101.com/article.cfm/roman_coliseum

http://www.livius.org/ro-rz/rome/rome_ludus_magnus.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludus_Magnus

http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/circus.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campus_Martius

http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Places/District/324614

Eleventh Blog

I have decided on my five buildings for the Google Earth assignment. They are;

• Colosseum
  
• Circus Maximus
• Roman Amphitheater of Syracuse
• Ludus - Gladiator Schools
• Campus Martius

I haven't done much research on all of them but I have done a bit on the Colosseum and will continue too research for the rest of them.

Tenth Blog

I am not too sure what bulidings I am going to do for my assignment yet but in this lesson I am going to reasearch what bulidings relate to gladiators in ancient rome. I know one of the biuldings I am doing is definety going to be the colloseum but other than that i dont know what to do. I am thinking of doing some of the training camps that are situated near the colloseum but i dont know what there names are or any information on them. Here is some information on the colloseum. The coloseum derives its name from the colossal statue of Nero that stood near the amphitheatre. It is a biulding with 80 arched entrances, 55,000 seats and measures 188m by 156m and is 48m high. The Coloseum has 4 storeys above the ground and below the ground were rooms where they kept the wild animals. The second and the third levels were decorated with marble statuettes. The upper level was covered with a canvas that protected the spectators The wooden floor of the arena was sanded to hold the gladiators firm on the ground.

Ninth Blog

In this blog there will some more reasearch I have done on my topic for this assignment, gladiators. During gladiator battles, when one of the gladiators in a contest was wounded, the crowd went wild. If one of the gladiators felt he was defeated, he would raise his left hand with one finger extended. This was to ask for mercy. It is believed that the crowd voted for death or to spare him by signalling with their thumbs: thumbs up and the gladiator lived, thumbs down and his opponent was to kill him. The defeated gladiator knelt at the feet of the winner and was killed. The winner would receive a prize, such as a golden bowl, crown, or gold coin, along with a palm leaf that symbolised victory. Successful gladiators, or those who fought in a spectacular way, were regarded as heroes, rather like exceptional athletes are today. Women gladiators, known as gladiatrix were once allowed to battle in the arena but this practice was banned in 200AD.

Eigth Blog

The gladiators needed weapons and protective equipment as well as many other things to help them survive whilst in the battling arena. Some of them include;

Balteus: (sword belt)
Cetratus - Light Shield
Clipeus - Large, oval body shield
Fascia: Protective leg padding
Galea: Visored helmet
Galerus: Shoulder guard
Greave: Leg armor
Kalkriese: Face armor
Spangenhelm - Highly Protective German helmet
Cuirass - Breastplate
Lorica hamata: Ring-mail armor
Lorica squamata: Scale, or plate, armour
Manica (pl.manicae): Protective arm wraps
Ocrea: Leg guard
Parmula: Small, light shield
Parma equestris: Medium-sized, round, cavalry shield
Scutum: Large Shield
Thorax Hamata - Chain mail
Cingulum - a wide leather belt
Spongia - Small breast plate