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Hello and welcome to my research page. I hope you can learn from this as much as I did while completing this project. Here is a written response I was requested to give, which will hopefully give you a bit of information about me: My Future Career I am not entirely sure what I want to do when I get older and I am prone to change my mind, but right now, I would really enjoy working in the video game industry. I do not think I am quite ready for any in-depth work like programming or scripting, but I think I would be excellent at graphic design or story writing. I am also not entirely sure if I want to be part of an actual company, like Sony or Microsoft, or an Indie developer, which are small teams or individual people working on a game (or several). This is only what I want to do, not necessarily what I should do for work. What I probably should do, and what has a very good pay (not that I am too interested in money) would be chemical engineering. I hear that DOW has a shortage of American workers, and is hiring from other countries as a result. Because of this, they would be more inclined to accept a qualifying American than a foreigner. I believe that would be a good career choice. Again, my opinion on this matter is subject to change, and I would hate to have a desk job. Unless it was in front of a monitor for nine hours, I would not enjoy it. This is quite a dilemma. What I want to do with good pay, and fun work and interesting environment, or excellent pay with a potentially boring job and dull environment. The main question for this topic was: What are the differences between the Greeks and Romans? There are also four sub-questions I broke the main question into. 1. 2. 3. 4. What are the differences between the Greek and Roman religions? How did the architecture differ between the Greek and Romans? How did the fighting styles differ between the Greeks and Romans? When were the Greeks conquered? When were the Romans? Greek and Roman Religion The Greek and Roman religions are very similar. Both the Greeks and Romans were Polytheistic, which is the belief in more than one god. If you look closely; you can find that most Greek gods have a Roman counterpart. The Greeks The Greeks had several main gods, Zeus the god of thunder, Hera, the goddess of marriage and Zeus’s wife, Poseidon, the god of the oceans, Hades, the god of the underworld, Athena, goddess of wisdom, Artemis, goddess of the hunt, Apollo, Artemis’s twin brother, god of archery, Dionysus, the god of wine, Ares, god of war, Hephaestus, god of the forge, Demeter, goddess of the harvest, Aphrodite, goddess of love, Hermes, the messenger god, and Hestia, goddess of the hearth. Aside from these “major gods”, there were also large sums of “minor gods” too. These gods were often described as “human in form, un-aging, nearly immune to all wounds and sickness, capable of becoming invisible, able to travel vast distances almost instantly, and able to speak through human beings with or without their knowledge”. The Romans The Roman religion did not really evolve until their contact with Greeks. Their religion was cobbled together from the many locations they added to their empire. Greek, Sabine, and ProtoIndo-European were all prominent within their religion. They had three main gods they worshipped, including Jupiter, who was the god of rain and lightning, who is comparable to the Greek god Zeus, Mars, the god of war, was derived from Ares, who is also a Greek god. Finally, the third god main god of the Romans, named Quirinus, who was either a true Roman god or a Sabine god. Architecture The Greeks The Romans Fighting Styles The Greeks The Greek warriors were know as hoplites, probably named after their shields, known as hoplons, which were about seventeen to thirty three pounds and were made of wood and coated with bronze. These shields were round and had a radius of about one and a half to one and three quarter feet. Due to the design of the shields, it provided more mobility, a way to rest it on the shoulder, and as a pseudo weapon to bash opponents with. Greek hoplites could form a shield wall and use their spears, called Doru, to attack oncoming attackers, while the rows behind them either help attack or help hold ground. This maneuver was known as a phalanx. The Doru were about seven to nine feet in length and often had some form of leaf-shaped spearhead. The spears were carried with the right hand while the shields were carried with the left. There were also less well-known parts of the Greek armies. The light infantry troops, along with cavalry (warriors who fought on horseback) were used as skirmishers to The Romans The Romans were so effective at warfare, at the height of their power; they conquered what is now known as “England/Wales, Spain, France, most of Germany, the northern coast of Africa, the Middle East and Greece,” – HistoryLearningSite, “the Roman Army”. When a Roman foot soldier, called a legionnaire, went into battle, they carried three main pieces of equipment, the Pilum, a sort of spear used to cause disorder in the enemy troops while the legionnaires made short work of the soldiers with their gladius, a double-edged short sword the Romans used in close-quarters. These were more often used for stabbing rather than slashing. For defense, legionnaires held a large rectangular shield with a curve around it to protect the holder from all sides. These shields were called scutum, and were often used to bash and shove opponents as well as deflect blows. Because of the integrity of these shields, opponents tired themselves out hacking and slashing at it. When in danger of projectiles, the legionnaires at the edges would hold out their shields, while the ones in the center would raise them up to form a near impenetrable barrier. This maneuver is known as the “tortoise,” – Guttman, Jon. "Roman Gladius and Scutum: Carving out an Empire.” The End of an Empire The Fall of Greece After Alexander the Great conquered most of the western world, absorbing the Persians and defeating the Egyptians, he died. After his early death, his two wildly different cultures he had under his control threatened to tear apart. His generals fought each other for control over the remains of Greece. After a brutal civil war, the generals each left and formed four separate kingdoms. Apparently, “One of the most famous of these kingdoms was Egypt under the Ptolemy’s. The Ptolemy dynasty ruled out of Alexandria, where the famous library was built. For the most part, they retained their Greekness, but portrayed themselves as Pharaoh to the native Egyptians,” -- "The Fall of Ancient Greece." Squidoo Due to the spreading of the Greek people, they suffered a massive population loss. “…the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth-rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit…” -- Polybius, The Histories, Book XXXVI, section V. With all of the population loss, Greece, or what was left of it, was crippled, and became easy prey for the Romans. The Fall of Rome Bibliography "The Fall of Ancient Greece." Squidoo. Web. 31 May 2012. <http://www.squidoo.com/fall_ancient_greece>. "12 Olympians - The Gods and Goddesses of Mt. Olympus." About.com Ancient / Classical History. Web. 01 June 2012. <http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/greekmythology/g/12Olympians.iA5.htm>. “Greek Warriors." Ancient Greek Warriors. 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