Rome notes

In today’s Western Civilization class, we still did work with Mr. Schick’s song “Rome,” but it was not focused on our movies. However we did watch Nicolette’s movie, and she did an OUTSTANDING job. In fact, Mr. Schick said that he was going to post it on his Facebook and tell people to like it and comment on it. Nicolette will become famous. Then after we had some time to work quietly for a few minutes, we took notes on Mr. Schick’s lesson based off of his song. We learned that our alphabet (including English, French etc.) came from the Latin alphabet. Rome was strategically located by the Tiber River and on top of a hill. However, the land was swampy so they had to drain the swamp in order to be able to build stuff on it. Also, Washington D.C. was built in these same kind of circumstances. Tarquin was a jerk of a ruler but they did not overthrow him because they were not habituated to this type of action. Though after his son raped the most respected woman in town, they were put over the edge and literally drove him out of town. This triggered the formation of the republic (Democracy + Aristocracy + Monarchy).