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Coliseum We are visiting the Coliseum because it is  capable of seating 50,000 spectators and it is used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles.
Day  Two
Roman  Forum The forum serves as a city square and central hub where the people of Rome gather for justice, and faith. The forum is also the economic hub of the city and is considered to be the center of the Republic and Empire. That’s why we are visiting it after some time walking  fom the place we slept in.
Day  Three
It took us half the day to walf from Rome to the deck whrere we were sleeping and where our ship would leave the next day. We traded some of the things we had for some food and then went to look for a place to sleep in.
Day Four
This day, we went to the dock early in the morning and got into the ship we were traveling in. We traveled all Day and also had to help to meve the ship. It was something really tiered, but new.
Day Five
This day we traveld the same as the day  before.  We arrived to Carthage  in the evening. Carthage is famous because it is a very important trading center because of its location. It is beside the ocean and has access toi many things.
Day Six
We are visiting Carthage because it has two first class harbors, and therefore an advantage with respect to the most effective means of transportation, the sea. The Carthaginians have developed high skills in the building of ships. Carthage is really famous for being a trading center.  City of trade
Day Seven
Pompeii  is famous because  it has the Macellum, that is a great food market; the Pristinum , that is a mill; the Thermopolium, a bar that served cold and hot beverages; many restaurants, two theaters, a gymnasium, and a hotel. Thos e are some of the reasons we are visiting it. We will stay at the hotel at night  and continiue to see the city tomorrow.
Day Eight
We will also visit the House of the Faun that is one of the greatest residence in Pompeii  Pompeii is also famous for its frescoes. So later in the day, after visiting all the places we want to visit, we will see some frescoes.
Days Nine and Ten
It took us two days, but we finally made it to Hadrian’s wall. We traveled from  Pompeii as far as we culd to the sea and then took a ship to Gaul.
Day Eleven
Hadrian's Wall is a stone and turf fortification built by the Roman Empire. Begun during the rule of emperor Hadrian, it was the middle of three such fortifications built across Great Britain, the first being from the River Clyde to the River Forth under Agricola and the last the Antonine Wall. All were built to prevent raids on Roman Britain by the Pictish tribes to the north, to improve economic stability and provide peaceful conditions in Britain, and to mark physically the frontier of the Empire.  It is very important and that’s why we are visiting it.
Days Twelve and Thirteen
We traveled from Hadrian’s Wall to the Pont du Gard. We traveled by ship and by horse.
Day Fourteen
It hasn’t been long since the Pont du Gard was built by Augustus' son-in-law and aide, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, around the year 19 BC. Designed to carry the water across the small Gardon river valley, it was part of a nearly 50 km (31 mi) aqueduct that brought water from the Fontaines d'Eure springs near Uzès to the Castellum in the Roman city of  Nemausus  (Nîmes).The full aqueduct had a gradient of 34 cm/km (1/3000), descending only 17 m vertically in its entire length and delivering 20,000 cubic meters (5 million gallons) of water daily.

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Roman empire trip

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  • 3.  
  • 4. Coliseum We are visiting the Coliseum because it is capable of seating 50,000 spectators and it is used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles.
  • 6. Roman Forum The forum serves as a city square and central hub where the people of Rome gather for justice, and faith. The forum is also the economic hub of the city and is considered to be the center of the Republic and Empire. That’s why we are visiting it after some time walking fom the place we slept in.
  • 8. It took us half the day to walf from Rome to the deck whrere we were sleeping and where our ship would leave the next day. We traded some of the things we had for some food and then went to look for a place to sleep in.
  • 10. This day, we went to the dock early in the morning and got into the ship we were traveling in. We traveled all Day and also had to help to meve the ship. It was something really tiered, but new.
  • 12. This day we traveld the same as the day before. We arrived to Carthage in the evening. Carthage is famous because it is a very important trading center because of its location. It is beside the ocean and has access toi many things.
  • 14. We are visiting Carthage because it has two first class harbors, and therefore an advantage with respect to the most effective means of transportation, the sea. The Carthaginians have developed high skills in the building of ships. Carthage is really famous for being a trading center. City of trade
  • 16. Pompeii is famous because it has the Macellum, that is a great food market; the Pristinum , that is a mill; the Thermopolium, a bar that served cold and hot beverages; many restaurants, two theaters, a gymnasium, and a hotel. Thos e are some of the reasons we are visiting it. We will stay at the hotel at night and continiue to see the city tomorrow.
  • 18. We will also visit the House of the Faun that is one of the greatest residence in Pompeii Pompeii is also famous for its frescoes. So later in the day, after visiting all the places we want to visit, we will see some frescoes.
  • 20. It took us two days, but we finally made it to Hadrian’s wall. We traveled from Pompeii as far as we culd to the sea and then took a ship to Gaul.
  • 22. Hadrian's Wall is a stone and turf fortification built by the Roman Empire. Begun during the rule of emperor Hadrian, it was the middle of three such fortifications built across Great Britain, the first being from the River Clyde to the River Forth under Agricola and the last the Antonine Wall. All were built to prevent raids on Roman Britain by the Pictish tribes to the north, to improve economic stability and provide peaceful conditions in Britain, and to mark physically the frontier of the Empire. It is very important and that’s why we are visiting it.
  • 23. Days Twelve and Thirteen
  • 24. We traveled from Hadrian’s Wall to the Pont du Gard. We traveled by ship and by horse.
  • 26. It hasn’t been long since the Pont du Gard was built by Augustus' son-in-law and aide, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, around the year 19 BC. Designed to carry the water across the small Gardon river valley, it was part of a nearly 50 km (31 mi) aqueduct that brought water from the Fontaines d'Eure springs near Uzès to the Castellum in the Roman city of Nemausus (Nîmes).The full aqueduct had a gradient of 34 cm/km (1/3000), descending only 17 m vertically in its entire length and delivering 20,000 cubic meters (5 million gallons) of water daily.