Classwork WMSIO #8

Read Rome and Roots of Western Civilization pages 178-183
Answer questions 1 and 5
Do worksheet 5

1. For each term or name, write a sentence explaining its significance.
Greco-Roman culture: Mixing of elements of Greek, Roman, and Hellenistic (mixing of Greek, Egyptian, Persian, and Indian) cultures.
Pompeii: Roman town in which the best examples of Roman painting were found in AD 79.
Virgil: Roman poet who wrote the epic Aeneid, the most famous work of Latin literature, in ten years.
Tacitus: A Roman historian who, among all others, did actually present facts truly as they were.
Aqueduct: Structures designed by Roman engineers to bring water into cities and towns.

5. What influence did Latin have on the development of Western languages? Latin remained the language of learning in the West, and then became the official language of the Roman Catholic Church coming into the twentieth century.