The Reflection of the Humanities project

The Reflection of the Humanities project

-The Greek and Rome Research Report-

The Greek and Rome Research Report

From the ancient history of Greek and  Roman, it can reveal that many of wester modern civilization developments are originated from Greece and Roman. First, from the structure of social status, they classified people from their jobs into different categories. From the loyal families to slavery system, their people were treated differently from a social value. Since Greece and Rome both experienced the great empires  with their strong, powerful great army, which depicts the powerful army force was essential at that time, unavoidably , the social status of army leaders, and different ranks of soldiers held the unbeatable supreme social status.

 

Same as in Greece, people were classified into different ranks  based on their work, for instance, politicians were holding the supreme authority and respectful social position in Greek society. In their daily life, Greek men if they were not training in military, or discussing politics went to the Theatre for entertainment. To watch dramas that they could relate to, including tragedies and comedies. These often involved current politics and gods in some form. It is thought that women were not allowed to watch theatre or perform at the theatre, although male actors did play women roles. As for children in ancient Greece usually occupied their time playing with toys and games. 

Furthermore, the democracy system was derived from ancient Greece, which in Greek, "popular government" which "people", "rule”,and “ strength" political systems then existing in some Greek city-states. Prior to the democracy system built, people were depended on Gods, spirits to rule out and made the order for the society, which would lead to many results to superstition. Hence, the rise and revolution of democracy made a great step and more progress in ancient Greece, then it brought the great revolution and development to our modern society.

From the great progress Greece and Roman had made in political system, it came up their religion, like mentioned above, ancient Greek and Roman believed their Gods and Goddesses and handed in the national essential fairs to them. Their both religions encompassed the collection of beliefs and rituals practiced in ancient Greece, for instance, Greek people all recognized the 13 major gods and goddess. On the other hand, since Ancient Roman religion also encompasses the collection of beliefs and rituals practised in ancient Rome. Within the Roman world, it's common to practical counterpart of roman mythology.

 

As we can see the religious concepts of ancient Greek and Roman are mostly related to God, goddess and mythology, therefore, there were a lot of magnificent beautiful workpieces in arts. Nowadays, we still can see many great magnificent workpieces from ancient Rome. The art of ancient Greece has exercised a great influence on the culture of many countries from ancient times until now, particularly in the fields of sculpture and architecture. Roman expressed their creativity in their paintings, portait sculpture, and latin literature, and it's affected from Greek.  In many ways, from nation system, religion, art, and lifestyle, we still can find some Greek great influence on Roman culture, for example, Colosseum, is one of the greatest ancient Roman construction, where comprises not only its lasting history but also the talented and sophisticated calculation and architecture achievement. 

Besides the extraordinary performance in architecture achievement, there are many good inventions that ancient Greek had, and we still have them use in our modern life, like water screw, a device for raising water using an encased screw open at both ends. Now we call it “ Archimedes screw” and it is still in use today. Levers are one of the basic tools, scissor, pliers, hammer claws, nutcrackers, and tongs. The other good inventions like “Cataplult”, “Heron”, “Steam Engine”, “Umbrella”.

All in all, I learned more history about ancient Greece and Rome from the concepts of their economics, social customs, political, religions, arts, technology and geography, especially from people's daily life. We are aware of some current techniques from ancient Greece and Rome culture. Even now, many countries still receive the great impacts from ancient Greece and Rome, like democracy political system, some great inventions in technology, great creation in architecture development, which make us to view and witness those great constructions based on the human beings' ultimate efforts. I'm particularly impressive in the revolution and progress of democracy, Greece achieved one of greatest devotions in human beings' history development. With Greek and Roman's endeavor, nowadays we can demonstrate democratic system developing among the modern nations all over the world.

Bibliography -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/greece.shtml

-Reflection-

From the Humanities project “ The Greek and Rome Research Report”, which made me learn and used the learning outcome of being an active learner while searching and studying the related information and sources. From answering those questions of Ancient Greece and Rome Webquest, which had led me to put all the piece of ancient Greece and Rome history and found out more about  their ancient myth. 

Honestly, at the beginning, I didn’t quiet understand how to process and carry out this project. After several misdirections and discussions with the team members, I finally completed it step by step myself. From this point, I learned  better on how to communicate with the others, and tried to be an effective communicator.  Afterwards, I was trying hard and spent a great deal of time to deliver the whole project through several mistakes and bottlenecks. Finally, I finished up this challenging assignment, and turned me into a critical thinker while I was making my own efforts to make it happen.

Though I received a fine grade on this project, I have to admit that the discussion with my team members and their helpful assistance is one of the major factors contributes to my completion on this project. Sadly, I should have  assisted my team members as well, therefore, I hope that I will be playing a role of helper next time.