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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My house was flooded, and was overflowing. I tried to find a hold an something, any thing, but I was being carried away by the current. Finally, I was swept rather harshly into the bathroom, and in my panic I knocked one of the pipes off my broken sink. The pipe trapped me against the wall, I started to scream, but realizing that wouldn’t do me any good I started to think. Suddenly an idea hit me, literally. The open end of the pipe was hitting me in the mouth. I looked up to see that the ceiling had a whole in it, in which the pipe was sticking up into fresh air. Instantly I put the pipe in my mouth and breathed in the cool, fresh air. I could finally breath but I still couldn’t get out and the water was rising quickly. I saw a big kitchen knife floating toward me. I grabbed it quickly and started sawing at the roof that was by now touching my head. I did this with the pipe still in my mouth, which was not an easy task. I had managed big whole around the pipe in the roof. I waited for the water to push me up again, and when it did it washed me onto my roof. I could see other people on their roofs too, but they all seemed to think that they where safe. I had seen hurricanes like this before, so I knew I was far from ‘’safe’’.

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Prince Jaron is the main character in the Ascendance trilogy by Jennifer Nelson. He is the main character in the three books, The False Prince, The Runaway King, and The Shadow Throne. I will be talking about this character’s great courage, love, compassion, and will to protect his friends his Kingdom, and even his enemies.

            Prince Jaron is a very courageous king, we see this in the False Prince when Jaron defies his master, Bevin Conner, that is secretly trying to become prime regent in Jaron’s court. He is also very courageous because he laves to climb, in all three books he climbs at least once to escape, save someone, save himself, or spy on people, this is the reason why he is called the ascendance king. We also see Jaron’s courage in the Runaway king when he defeated the Avenging pirates that where killing his country. Yet Again we see his courage in the Shadow throne, when he rescues his beloved Imogen from an Avian camp.

            We also see his will to protect and love his friends. He hates death for the people around him so he tries his best to not put them in danger, which sometimes means he has to put his life at risk. We see this in the False Prince where gets fights with his friend Rodin but doesn’t kill him while Rodin will do an thin to kill him to gain the throne. We see this also in the Runaway King when Jaron wraps his head in bandages to make him look like he has plague wounds, which gives him and his friends an escape route. Yet again we see his gallantness when he finally proposes to Imogen in a dungeon.

             Prince Jaron is one of the most intelligent and kind kings I have ever seen.

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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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This book will tell you a story about a sixteen year old Jewish girl that is fighting the Nazis. She is part of a resistance called Akiva that is fighting the Nazis. Her family is in shambles so she is trying to save her people from dying as a courier. She is very brave and often at the center of battle but she always gets out alive.

            A Jewish girl named Chaya Linder is fighting as a courier for Akiva. She acts like a polish girl and wears A catholic crucifix, and she has blond hair like the polish, which are allied with the Nazis.  She smuggles weapons, food, blank identification papers, and spreads word of the resistance into the ghettos that are filled with Jewish people. Usually she hides food and weapons under blankets and pieces of clothing, so even when they search her bags they won’t find the supplies that she is bringing to the Jewish people. She always knows that she may die on one of her trips to the ghettos but that she will tell nothing of the resistance, no matter what they did to her. She also tries to make the men think she was pretty so that they would let her into the ghetto which usually worked, but she never fell in love with any of them because she knew they where Hitler’s allies and had no intention to flirt with any of them. She met a girl that was about her age that was named Esther and had many close calls with her. She even attacked the Cyganeria Café’ that had German solders in it which killed a lot of soldiers but it also got her friends killed and arrested so Chaya hid in a safe house. Later she found Esther and they decided to go to the Lodz ghetto to give the people rations but actually Esther wanted to know if there was still people there. They almost got caught when they left the ghetto, thank god the guy that found them was Jewish. Then when they where going to another ghetto in Warsaw they met up with another resistance and got ready to stop a liquidation of a ghetto in Warsaw they dropped bombs on the Germans, blew up their tanks shot the soldiers, planted land mines and poisoned their food. In the end they lost but they kept fighting. Chaya even got shot in the thigh but she pushed through smoke, burning buildings, and sewers where she lost her friend Esther and drove to a countryside where she was safe and sound. I think this book is a must read because it teaches us to resist in hard times and keep fighting even when could die trying like Chaya Linder with a hole in her thigh. it teaches us to push through even when you are hated. Jennifer also has other books like these which I have read. Beautiful reads.

            This book does not have a happy ending, nor does it have a sad ending but it is a very good book and it is about war. Chaya survives and is able to overcome the grief for her friends and family.

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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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            Most of the population of India practices Buddhism, and Hinduism, but there are small regions that ore Muslim, and Christian. They worship many gods, like Brahma and Shiva but the people don’t all celebrate the same gods.

            Indians have very unique clothing and jewelry. The women usually wear saris with ornate patterns. They also wear a variety of jewelry, spanning from ring-bracelets, jewelry crowns, nose rings attached to an erring and thick necklaces. Men usually wear the Dhoti as a type of pants, these can be worn in many colors, sometimes the men will wear shirts but they usually go shirtless.

             Another thing India is famous for is its street food, many people Indian street food is better than American street food. Some of the street foods include, Indian scrambled iggs , Grilled Tandoori chicken , Samosa, Masala Chai, Bad Pav, Pane Pure, and Pave Bhaji.

            These ore some of the things that India is known and famous for, and a country that is known all over the world.

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