Kindergarten, History, Week 28

• Read chapter 32 in Child's History (The Boot Kicks and Stamps)
• Carthage wanted to fight Rome again
• This time, instead of fighting on the sea, the Carthage army went on land through Spain and over the alps into Italy.
• Hannibal (the Carthage general) brought elephants with him
• Hannibal was winning battle after battle
• Rome decided to attack Carthage while Hannibal was away
• Rome beat Carthage
• Read chapter 33 in Child's History (The New Champion of the World)
• Rome was the ruler of almost all the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea
• They needed roads to be able to get to all the parts of their empire
• They wanted the people in the cities to have clean water
• They built big pipes from clean lakes to the cities: aqueducts
• They built underground sewers
• They made fair and just laws
• The cities and towns in the empire had to pay taxes to Rome
• Read chapter 34 in Child's History (The Noblest Roman of Them All)
• There were pirates wanting to rob the ships carrying the taxes to Rome
• Julius Caesar was sent to fight these pirates
• Caesar was captured by the pirates; he told the pirates that when he got back to Rome he would get a fleet and come back and punish them
• Caesar was ransomed by Rome, came back and took the pirates prisoner and crucified them
• Caesar was sent to Spain and Gaul to put down uprisings
• Caesar went to Britain and conquered part of it
• Pompey was a general who was fighting in the eastern part of the Roman empire
• Pompey became jealous of Caesar; he persuaded Rome to order Caesar to give up his army and come back to Rome
• Caesar decided to return to Rome, but not give up his army
• Caesar made himself the head of all Italy
• Caesar conquered Egypt
• Some people thought Caesar was getting too much power and so they killed him
• We worked on our time line