LINCOLN GEOGRAPHIC. Explorer. Pompeii. Ian, Edward, Olivia, and Amal

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1 LINCOLN GEOGRAPHIC Explorer Pompeii Ian, Edward, Olivia, and Amal 1

2 Table of Contents Introduction... 3 What was a normal day in Pompeii?... 4 What was the City like?... 6 What is Mt. Vesuvius?... 7 What happened during the eruption?... 8 What about the survival?... 9 What happened at the excavation? Conclusion Wordwise Glossary References

3 Introduction Could you imagine what it was like to in Pompeii on the day August, 24th 79 A.D.? There were very happy living people until the famous eruption of Mt.Vesuvius which took Pompeii down to the ground. Read this article to find out about terrible eruption. Mt. Vesuvius exploding at a steaming rate! 3

4 What was a normal day in Pompeii? A normal day in Pompeii: (4:27-5:42) In the first part of the day people would go to barber shops to talk and hang out. Also people had to get water from the public fountains because most people did not have private fountains in their house. (5:42-6:58) For breakfast they ate bread and cheese, maybe with vegetables or anything else left over from the night before. If you were poor you would eat on plates made out of bread after you ate, you would eat the plates too. 4

5 (8:13-9:29) In the forum people walked, talked and discussed the problems of the town. For insistence you might have heard a man say, I want the troops to go out of the city for battle, not stay inside and wait for the Romans to attack and capture us all. Another man might have responded, No we should not it will kill every troop. We should keep every troop that we have. The Romans have almost 7000 troops we are outnumber. We need to do that, keep troops not give them away to the Romans, a third person might have added. Lets take a vote! Sounds of ok, ok, ok, sure could be heard in the forum. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, it will be the 3rd idea, we are going to keep the troops, declares the forum leader. Even though that is not exactly what was said it is what it would have sounded like at this time in the forum. (12:00-1:15) This was the moment to relax. Some rich noblemen offered to the town an exhibition of gladiators so people went to the amphitheater to see them fight. Many of them were slaves fighting each other and lions for their freedom. It was like the football matches of today. We do not appreciate it now, but some people did in 246 B.C. (1:15-2:31) This was the moment of thermal baths. People went to large hot springs and had baths together. Thankfully they were cheap so slaves could keep clean and were not dirty all the time. 3:46-5:20 A short time before sunset, the romans had dinner eating olives and eggs, and even meat, fish and and cakes if they could afford it. There was no much to do in the evenings, and the streets were not safe so people went to bed early. The people of Pompeii lived a pretty advanced life, read on to learn more about what the city was like. 5

6 What was the City like? Wobble wobble the cart fell into a ditch and up again. It s 79 A.D. and we are back in the center on Pompeii. There was just farmers at the start but then the city grew. The big city was not protected with walls that is vary weird because it was a rich city. Later they end up building 3 kilometer walls to protect the city from attacks from the Romans. The walls width was 7 meters and there were 8 gates around the city. The eldest, yet unknown building was made in 60 B.C. Did you know that Pompeii is located in west cost of Italy? It was 160 acres and it was whopping 500 meters above sea level. Pompeii was also a very technological city. When it rained they had gutters to carry the water away, wow! Also there water source came from the river saron, they had fountains were people could get the water. Another example of being technical is the streets were vary narrow 2.4 to 9.5 meters. Did you know they had temple to resemble the great gods of pompeii? They also had big grand bathhouses (bathhouse are people used to bath in them but now people do not bathe in bathhouse any more) they had bakery's (the first shot in the Roman war hit a bakery) and there was a amphitheater (a amphitheater is a place were people performed plays). Pompeii was a very complex city for its age and time. A rumble for the wagon... 6

7 What is Mt. Vesuvius? What's Mt.vesuvius? What's the fact's? Tell me? Okay, I will tell you. First this volcano is about 4,000 what happened when this complex volcano erupted on the city built below. This volcano s ash blocked the sun. Imagine when the moon blocks the sun it is like that but with ash! Read on to learn more. feet tall! That's 1,400 meters! That s like 5 Empire State building stacked on top of each other. Mt.Vesuvius is complex. What does that mean? Well it is a volcano which has more than one feature. This means it has more than one vent, or place where lava can flow out. It also has gone through many stages, from a cone to the mountain it is today. But for double the action there's more than one volcano. Since Italy is right on tectonic plates it has tons of volcanos and disasters there including: campi flegrei (the closest volcano), Stromboli, Panarea, Vulcano, Etna, Campei Flegrei del Mardi Sicilla (the farthest volcano ). So 7

8 What happened during the eruption? Bang! A load of fiery, hot, gooey lava sprouted out from the volcano, Mt.Vesuvius at 12. in the afternoon. People were running and screaming while the ash poured down the volcano at 70 miles per hour. As it did, people and animals started getting sick and also started choking. It took 24 hours to cover the beautiful city of Pompeii. After that it was dark for 3 whole days! At the end there was 3.5 meters of ash covering the hard, bare ground. It would be 1,671 more years Ash and pumice raining down on everything until people see daylight there again! 8

9 What about the survival? The people of Pompeii made weird decisions. Only one boy survived the eruption. That boy was Pliny. He was only 18 when the eruption started. Imagine being that young when a eruption happens and your the only one who survived. Then this boy bought a boat and sailed across the bay of Naples and got to sea. That is a long trip. His jobs were a lawyer, a author and a magistrate (the officer of the state). Pliny died at the age of 51. That's old for that age at that time. At first 90 % of the people of Pompeii got to safety and some brought valuables. Shockingly all but Pliny went back and died. I wonder why he didn t go back? 9

10 What happened at the excavation? Whoosh! As the wind blew, silence hung over Shovel, shovel! In the 1900s, archeologists dug up the Pompeii, nobody moved, no one was even there. After the spooky eruption in 79 A.D, a group of people who set out to find the lost city of Pompeii were amazed! Eyes scanned beautiful jewels sparkling in the sun, ancient helmets that the gladiators wore were covered in ash, even the old, dirty furniture. Wow! What interesting treasures! So they slowly picked away the ash, and dug, and dug until they reached priceless treasures. The people sold the precious treasures for money or, it's obvious, they kept them. Some scholars were allowed to study the finds. Amazed by the treasure, people really started to dig. They kept the ash and pumice blocked by wooden panels. Pick, pick! ancient bodies of Pompeii. The first body to be found had the most beautiful, sparkling jewels in it's skeleton 10

11 hands. They put the gooey, sticky glue on the bones, because they were broken into what seemed like a thousand pieces. Then they put white plaster on the bodies that were not disintegrated (because of all the ash and pumice). People kept slowly digging at the ash. As they dug, they found petrified eggs still on the grill! It was figured that objects burned underneath the old, ashy, ancient city where it was preserved for almost more than 2,000 years! Plus they found the huge skeletons of horses, dogs, mules, and, donkeys too. Apparently, by the skeleton the archeologists can figure out what probably the people and their animals had This dog was chained to a rope, and was struggling to get free. He choked and got sick, then, sadly, died looked like, like if it was a girl or boy, horse or mule. It was pretty obvious that a scull was probably a dog or human. Pompeii is now visited by millions and millions of people. When will Mt. Vesuvius erupt again? 11

12 Conclusion The city and the people of Pompeii were facing a threat, but Mt. Vesuvius must be happy, dun dun dun! This eruption taught people a lesson. Don't start your town near a Volcano. Do you think Mt. Vesuvius will erupt again? 12

13 Wordwise Glossary Saron - the river that Pompeii got the water supplies Forum- this is a place where people discussed problems Magistrate- an officer of the town Pumice- a rock that sprouts out of a volcano all rocky already Ash- pulverized rock minerals and volcanic glass created during volcanic eruptions less than 2mm(0.079)in diameter 13

14 References Reference 1 - Mt. Vesuvius web from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mount Vesuvius Reference 2- Lost Pompeii Reference 3- Pompeii by Richard Platt Reference 4- Reference 5- Storyworks Magazine by Lauren Tarshis Reference 6- Solving the Mysteries of Pompeii by Charlie Samuel Reference 7- The lost city of Pompeii by Joan Malam Reference 8- Buried Pompeii by Shelly Tanaka Reference 9- Reference Reference 11- Google Earth Reference Reference Reference 14- Pompeii lost and found by Mary Osborn Frescoes and Bonnie Christensen Reference 15- Pompeii unearthing ancient worlds by Liz Sonneborn 14