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Roman Roads – Sasha Trubetskoy

Roman Roads – Sasha Trubetskoy
If you think this would make a cool poster, follow this link and send me a few bucks. I’ll email you a crisp PDF for printing! It’s finally done. A subway-style diagram of the major Roman roads, based on the Empire of ca. 125 AD. Creating this required far more research than I had expected—there is not a single consistent source that was particularly good for this. The lines are a combination of actual, named roads (like the Via Appia or Via Militaris) as well as roads that do not have a known historic name (in which case I creatively invented some names). How long would it actually take to travel this network? However, no sane Roman would use only roads where sea travel is available. Creative liberties taken The biggest creative element was choosing which roads and cities to include, and which to exclude. Obviously to travel from Petra to Gaza you would take a more or less direct road, rather than going to Damascus and “transferring” to the Via Maris. Related:  MapsAntiquitéHistory

This Map Shows the Hourly Wage You Need to Afford an Apartment in Your State A new report shows that skyrocketing rent prices have put basic living arrangements out of reach in nearly every state for most low-income workers. In order to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment in the U.S., workers on average need to earn at least $20.30 an hour, according to 2016 data from the National Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC). That’s roughly $13 more per hour than the federal minimum wage, and roughly $5 per hour more than the average national $15.42 hourly wage earned by renters last year. Even a one-bedroom apartment is out of reach for minimum wage earners today at Fair Market Rent (FMR) levels. FMR is the metric that the Department of Housing and Urban Development uses to determine standard payments for housing choice vouchers, rent ceilings for the HOME rental assistance program, and rents at Section 8 housing developments when contracts are up for renewal. Fair market rent varies by state.

An Incredibly Detailed Map of the Roman Empire At Its Height in 211AD Map created by Sardis Verlag The map above is one of the most detailed and interesting maps of the Roman Empire you’ll likely find online. It shows what the Empire looked like in 211 CE (aka 211 AD) at the end of the reign of Septimius Severus. There lots of really cool things to point out about the map itself. You can see the Hadrian’s Wall and the less famous but more northern Antonine Wall. Oh and you can buy a copy here. Why 211 CE? Here are a few close-ups of sections of the maps: The area around Rome (Roma) in Italy. Notice the Roman city of Byzantium. Map of the Caucasus. Britain and Ireland (Britannia & Hibernia) in 211 CE. To learn more about the Roman Empire have a look at: Enjoy these maps?

What's language doing here? | What we need to know to move pupils from everyday to academic language Antipodes Map - Tunnel to the other side of the world La Méditerranée antique : les empreintes romaines. Un article récent proposait deux cartographies pour aborder la période grecque de la Méditerranée antique. Nous nous attachons ici au deuxième moment du premier chapitre du programme d’histoire en seconde : les empreintes romaines. La cartographie proposée cible sur le règne d’Auguste (Point de passage et d’ouverture du programme) jusqu’à la fin du règne de Trajan. Les délimitations frontalières sont établies à partir de l’Atlas historique de G. Duby. Biographie de l’empereur Auguste à partir d’une vidéo de France TV Éducation. Un travail possible sur la romanisation et les héritages culturels à partir du site du Centre du patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO : les exemples de Nîmes et de Leptis Magna. L’empire romain d’Auguste à Trajan La carte en PDF interactif : En parallèle de l’hyperlien sur Nîmes, retrouvez les traces de la romanité à travers une recherche des constructions signalées dans l’article : Pour aller plus loin : L’Empire romain sous Auguste Les congrégations chrétiennes en 325.

Chronology Of Prehistory The 2014 NC includes prehistory, a period which may not be familiar to teachers. One of the challenges will be to help children gain a sense of the chronology of the prehistoric period and where this fits in to the broader chronology of Romans, Tudors, Victorians etc. These notes provide an outline framework for introducing the chronology of prehistory which we hope history co-ordinators will read and think about in the context of their own schools and then adapt and build on them accordingly. Please remember that what follows gives outline ideas only – it’s impossible to provide a more detailed breakdown because classes and schools differ so much. Download Download these outline ideas [ click here ] 1. Creating timelines in their own right can be a dry and unmotivating activity. So begin by getting children interested in the finds or place – probably quite briefly - then use this as the way in to exploring where the find/place fits in time. 2. 3. 4. 5. Battersea shield – Iron Age here …

One Interactive Map Reveals the Wi-Fi Passwords From Airports Around the World Frequent travelers understand the headache of finding decent Wi-Fi in most airports. Slow lines or service that is limited to 30 minutes can make killing time on a layover a nightmare. Travel blogger and computer security engineer Anil Polat has solved the problem with this online map of crowdsourced Wi-Fi passwords in airports around the world. The current count is at 132 airports, with the map being updated continuously. If you can't access internet in order to pull up the interactive map, Polat also developed paid apps for Android and iOS that work offline. l'impero romano, altrove quanto era grande l'impero romano? beh, abbastanza... prendiamo l'apice dell'estensione territoriale dell'impero, sotto l'imperatore Traiano nel 117 d.C. una mappa ben conosciuta, direi. beh, adesso spostiamo l'impero in altri continenti e vediamo i risultati... SUD AMERICA! AFRICA! AMERICA DEL NORD! dall'Iran a Taiwan! OCEANIA!

» Rainbow Theatre for Schools Rainbow Theatre South has been working continually now for over thirty years, building up a unique relationship with schools and adult audiences. Rainbow’s original company, under the direction of the Company’s Artistic Director, Nick Young, combines enormous theatre experience and expertise, with enthusiastic, talented young professional actors, currently tours schools in East and West Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Kent. Performance Shows * Show can be performed to whole school(A) Audience Show (W) Workshop (E) Rainbow Experience Show (S) Southern Area Only (L) London Area Only Autumn 2017 4 Fairy Tales (A) KS1Saxon Invasion (A) KS2Moses & the Egyptians (A) KS 1& 2Cinderella (S) * (A) KS 1&2Snow White (L) * (A) KS 1&2Child in Ancient Greece (W) KS 1&2Child in Roman Britain (W) KS 1&2Vikings! Introduction to Shakespeare (W) KS 2 Spring 2018 Introduction to Shakespeare (W) KS 1&2 Summer 2018

Ingeniously Redesigned World Map Looks Unusual, But Is Highly Accurate We've been conditioned to look at the world in one, highly distorted, manner due to the prevalence of the Mercator projection. Gerardus Mercator's vision of the world was revealed in 1569 and has become the widely accepted version of the planet, yet it contains enormous flaws. For one, both Antarctica and Greenland are represented as much larger landmasses than what is accurate, while Alaska is shown to be as big as Brazil, even though Brazil is nearly five times its size. One clever Japanese designer, Hajime Narukawa, has spent years studying an innovative solution for a new world map. To resolve the flaws, he has created the AuthaGraph map, a perfectly proportioned rendering of our planet that functions both as a bi-dimensional map and three-dimensional globe. You can make your own piece of geographical origami by printing out the AuthaGraph and folding it into different shapes, all of which show a proportional representation of land and sea. AuthaGraph: Website via [Spoon & Tamago]

The Romans: From Village to Empire (2nd edition; 2011) | Ancient World Mapping Center A second edition of Mary T. Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola, Noel Lenski, Richard J. A. The maps below were originally created by the Ancient World Mapping Center. Map 1.1 Archaic Italy [Full-size .pdf version] Map 1.2 Southern Italy and Sicily [Full-size .pdf version] Map 1.3 Northern Italy [Full-size .pdf version] Map 1.4 Rome and Environs [Full-size .pdf version] Map 1.5 Rome in the Early Republic (before 300 B.C.) Map 2.1 Latium and Southern Etruria [Full-size .pdf version] Map 2.2 Latium and Campania [Full-size .pdf version] Map 2.3 Samnium [Full-size .pdf version] Map 2.4 Southern Italy [Full-size .pdf version] Map 3.1 Western Mediterranean in the Mid-Third Century [Full-size .pdf version] Map 3.2 Northern Italy [Full-size .pdf version] Map 3.3 Southern Italy and Sicily [Full-size .pdf version] Map 3.4 Iberian Peninsula [Full-size .pdf version] Map 3.5 Greece, the Aegean, and Western Asia Minor [Full-size .pdf version] Map 5.1 Rome’s Foreign Wars, 113-82 [Full-size .pdf version] Map 5.2 Social War

Astounding Animation Features The Center Of Ancient Rome In 320 AD Touted as the most detailed 3D rendering of the ancient metropolis, Danila Loginov has presented his third and final promo of the ‘eternal city’ of Rome at its architectural peak, circa 320 AD (watch the first and second animated promo). This time around, running over 10 minutes of awesomeness, the animation video (part of the Rome in 3D project) features a range of ancient landmarks such as the temple of Divine Augustus, Basilica Argentaria, the baths of Trajan and Titus to the Colosseum (along with the statue of Colossus Solis), arches of Titus and Constantine, and Ludus Magnus. In Loginov’s own words – We are happy to present a new, 3rd trailer of our project, which dedicated to ancient Rome 3D reconstruction, as it was in 320 AD. Previously we have shown the Forums area, and also Palatine and Capitolium hills with their palaces and major temples. What is our “Rome in 3D” project in general? The significance of 320 AD –

A new kind of map: time & Points of interest click 2x By: Peter Liu How would you describe your morning commute? If you’re like most people, it starts with a ballpark estimate of how long it usually takes. Or maybe several estimates, depending on when you leave for work, how bad traffic is, or whether you’re walking, driving, or taking the bus. There’s something strange here: we’re answering a question about a trip through physical space, with numbers in units of time. Almost 25 years into digital mapping, we’re at an interesting crossroads. At the same time, our decision-making around places — where to go for lunch, if a certain day trip is feasible, and yes, whether a commute is practical — have shifted toward how long it takes to get there. What would a more directly useful visualization — indeed, a map of time — look like? In city centers with a lot of walking traffic, you may see maps overlaid with progressively larger circles, to estimate travel time based on simple physical distance. Isochrones get us a bit closer.

Pomponius Mela Reconstruction of Pomponius Mela's world map by Konrad Miller (1898). Pomponius Mela's description of Europe (F. Nansen, 1911). Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest Roman geographer. He was born in Tingentera (now Algeciras) and died c. His short work (De situ orbis libri III.) occupies less than one hundred pages of ordinary print. Biography[edit] Little is known of the author except his name and birthplace—the small town of Tingentera or Cingentera in southern Spain, on Algeciras Bay (Mela ii. 6, § 96; but the text is here corrupt). Geographical knowledge[edit] The general views of the De situ orbis mainly agree with those current among Greek writers from Eratosthenes to Strabo; the latter was probably unknown to Mela. The shores of Codanus sinus (southwestern Baltic Sea) in red with its many islands in green. Descriptive method[edit] Editions[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Tegg, Thomas (1824). External links[edit] Pomponius Mela's.

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