Friday, December 3, 2010

How Do People Handle Disasters?



Before considering how people coped with the chaos after the fall of the Roman Empire, let's consider how people today might cope with a disaster by considering one that happened just this past year.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Growth of the Roman Empire

Click on the map to see an animation about how the Roman Empire grew.

 Why do you think the Roman Empire is shaded in two separate colors after a point in time?
When we talk about the fall of the Roman Empire, we mean the Western Empire.
The Eastern part of the Roman Empire continued on for hundreds of years after the fall of the west.