Kindergarten, History, Week 31

• Read chapter 37 in Child's History (Blood and Thunder) you can divide this chapter into 3 days
• Nero was a Roman emperor who lived not long after Christ and is considered one of the cruelest and wickedest rulers that ever lived.
• Nero burned Rome and blamed it on the Christians
• The Jews decided they would no longer obey or pay taxes to Rome
• Titus destroyed Jerusalem, killed the Jews that were in Jerusalem, and destroyed the temple
• In 79 A.D. the volcano Vesuvius erupted and buried the city of Pompeii
• Years later a man digging a well discovered a statue's hand, which lead to the excavation of Pompeii
• Looked at pages 82 - 87 in Ancient World
• The Traveler's Guide to Ancient Rome by John Malam
• how they dressed
• what they ate
• Rome Antics by David Macaulay
• read this twice
• the second day we counted they different types of columns -- Doric, Ionic, or Corinthian