Jerome and Augustine were the last church fathers in the 3^rd century AD. Both of them were either skeptical of Christianity or were very sinful in their life before they became a church father.

St. Jerome was born in 347 AD in Stridon. He moved to Rome to study Latin. At first when he heard about Christianity he wasn’t sure about it and just moved on with his studies. During his journey he fell deathly ill and had a vision that made him commit hes life to studying the Bible. He started living alone as a hermit and adopted an ascetic lifestyle. In his years studying the Bible he wrote his own version in Latin called ‘’ The Vulgate’’. He wrote many other letters and commentaries on Scriptures that can still be seen today. Jerome died in 420 AD after spending time in prison for writing these great works. His legacy still lives on today.

St. Augustine was born in 354 AD in Africa with a Pagan dad and a Christian mom. He grew up in the church with his mother who lived a very honest lifestyle. Once he left home he turned his back on Christianity and lived his life in sin for many years. His mother was very sorry for him and prayed that somehow he would convert back to Christianity and honest living. Augustine was still very sinful but he started to listen to priests and eventually converted back to Christianity. After he converted he wrote a book called ‘’Confessions’’ about his years of sin and rebellion. This was very different from the other church fathers because they never wrote autobiography and Augustine was the first. Augustine was baptized in 387 AD. Augustine moved back to North Africa because his mother had died. He established a monastery there. He became Bishop of Hippo in 385 AD and wrote, ‘’The City of God’’, before he died in 430 AD.

St. Augustine and Jerome were the last and most important church fathers of the 3^rd century.

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In my opinion the two greatest kings of Rome where Romulus, the founder of Rome, and Nomad Pomading, the best peace maker in Rome. Romulus was a prince and wanted to build his kingdom on a mountain, but he had one big problem his brother Remus wanted to build the city in different location. They fought to the death to see who would get the throne of their kingdom. Romulus won and called the kingdom Rome. He brought in a few men to help build on and conquer the land. It made it very good to live in Rome but the men had no wives, so there wasn’t a growing population. Romulus decided to fix this problem by inviting the Sabine’s to come have a feast with them. Then Romulus and his men kidnapped the Sabine women and had the for their wives. A couple months later the Sabine’s declared war. The Sabine women had grown fond of their husbands and begged them not to fight. They agreed and the war was dismissed.

The next Roman king was Nomad Pompidou’s. He was known as the greatest pacemaker and builder. He built the temple of Jaron and fed the people. When he died the were sad.

I believe Nomad Pompidou and Romulus were the best kings of their time.

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Today I will be telling you about the Flavian dynasty, the three emperors of the Flavian dynasty were some of the most powerful, and most feared by the people.

            The first emperor was Vespasian. He was a Roman general in combat when he was called by the people to challenge their emperor to the throne. Vespasian then returned to Rome and convinced the emperor to step down. Vespasian ruled for 27 years, in those years he built the Coliseum, came out against the Jews, and was succeeded by his biological son, Titus.

             Titus was the second Flavian ruler in Roman history. He succeeded his father and finished the Coliseum.  Although he was a great ruler he only reigned for 3 years because he died of fever. In the years he did reign, he finished a lot of the work his father started, and completed more construction than any emperor in Rome. Titus was succeeded by Domitian, the last living Flavian in Roman history.

            Domitian was the last Flavian ruler and reigned for 10 years and may have had a hand in killing Titus. He ruled in a time of peace, but he made his people fear him by being a very strict ruler, He was recorded in Roman history as a tyrant, but we are told that he was jealous of his older brother Titus. He was forced into a marriage when he was crowned, and that probably brought about the tension that he created in the Roman empire. He was assassinated after his ten-year reign, and ended the Flavian dynasty.

            The Flavian dynasty was a relatively short and very strong but feared family line. It was also the first dynasty to have blood related rulers.  

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Rome didn’t always have a republic, it was ruled by a king and the king made saw , but after the last king was brought down Rome me a new form of government called the Republic.

            At first, the people did not trust this new form of government and they fought among themselves. The two most famous groups where the patricians and the plebeians. The plebian where very confused and wanted a written law, so some very prominent people wrote a law coke called the ‘’Twelve Tables’’. Then a after they wrote that they appointed people like: Judges, jurists, and lawyers, a lot of these government officials still exist today.

            Rome’s legal system was surprisingly well built for its time, which I think helped it stay alive for all the years it was an empire.

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            In my opinion the two greatest kings of Rome where Romulus, the founder of Rome, and Nomad Pomading, the best peacemaker in Rome. Romulus was a prince and wanted to build his kingdom on a mountain, but he had one big problem his brother Remus wanted to build the city in different location. They fought to the death to see who would get the throne of their kingdom. Romulus won and called the kingdom Rome. He brought in a few men to help build on and conquer the land. It made it very good to live in Rome but the men had no wives, so there wasn’t a growing population. Romulus decided to fix this problem by inviting the Sabine’s to come have a feast with them. Then Romulus and his men kidnapped the Sabine women and had the for their wives. A couple months later the Sabine’s declared war. The Sabine women had grown fond of their husbands and begged them not to fight. They agreed and the war was dismissed.

            The next Roman king was Nomad Pompidou’s. He was known as the greatest pacemaker and builder. He built the temple of Jaron and fed the people. When he died the were sad.

            I believe Nomad Pompidou and Romulus were the best kings of their time.

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The Peloponnesian wars was a series of wars between Athens and Sparta in Greece. This led to the decline of Greece, and the rise of Persia. Athens at first had the upper hand, but later Sparta was the winner of the last war which made Athens collapse. Years later Persia led the whole Greek Empire down. The Peloponnesian wars was a very long set of wars so much so that it was divided into three parts that divided by years. The Peloponnesian wars really were the thing that brought Greece down. Their division made them fall to let a new Empire, Persia takeover.

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            The Greeks usually sculpted the clay that they where using into vases, primarily and bowls, plates, and the like. They also did not make their pottery very thick so they where really easy to break so that is why we find pieces of pottery broken in Greece.

            The Greeks liked painted pottery, but did not have the colors that we do today, so they had to content themselves with red and black. Sometimes the pottery would have a light cream color because of the soil in that region but usually it was black on red or red on black.

            The Greeks used their pottery a lot because their homes where so simply furnished, so they used the vases as a pop of color in their houses.

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             When people stray from God’s word, God sends his wrath upon them. He killed all the rebels that rallied against Moses with heavenly fire. When the Egyptians did not let the Israelites flee from Egypt he sent ten plagues, the first one was turning the Nile River into blood. The Egyptians still wouldn’t let them go, so God sent nine more plagues to wipe out the Egyptians and let the third one was lice, the fourth one was flies, the fifth one was livestock dying, the sixth one was Boils and Sores, the seventh was Locusts, the ninth was Darkness for three days, and the tenth the Death of the First Born in all Egypt.

            God would not let people who do not repent of their sins go to heaven because they have done wrong and did not repent of it. If the person has committed a crime against the ten commandments and do not apologize they will perish.

            God’s will is very powerful and if we follow him we will be less likely to be judged by him.

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            Hatshepsut was born to Thutmose the first, and after he died Hatshepsut became Queen of Egypt when she was only twelve. Her husband was her half brother, Thutmose the second, and and bore only one child which was a girl. Her husband Thutmose had a son from anther wife and that son became king after Hatshepsut had died.

              Hatshepsut was a great architect and builder. She was famous for building the huge temple called Dier el Bahri in which the people would pray to their gods. Hatshepsut’s nephew decided to destroy her status to try to erase her from history, but records of the statues he didn’t destroy help us to figure out that the she was a female.

            Hatshepsut was a frivolous Queen and liked make up as many of the Egyptian Queens did. She also was depicted as a male pharaoh in hieroglyphics but the statues of her tell us that she was a female because of the softness in the face and the curves of her body.

             Queen Hatshepsut had a reign for almost twenty years and was remembered well in ancient Egyptian history as one of the most powerful female pharaohs.

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            That is what I would do if I was in the position of the ancient people.

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