Saturday’s last seminar started off on a rocky start. We were locked out of the building -it was
cold, windy and raining. Poor Mr. Dundov had to run around to find a way in. I
was hoping that we would get let in so that they didn’t have to cancel the
seminar. We were stuck outside for about
45 before we were let in; that was 45 minutes that was cut from our class time. Once in class Mr. Dundov started off by
showing us a picture of a Colloseum that was on his wall. He asked us to guess
where it was from. Of course all of us
knew that it wasn’t the Roman Colosseum since the Colloseum in the picture was
still standing and had no destroyed sides. I thought it was in Greece which was a good
guess but not the right answer. The Colosseum was actually in Croatia.
After that ice breaker class went by really quick. Everyone was very into what he was teaching
and I almost forgot to write notes as I
was so engaged in the lesson. It didn’t feel like a class at all, Mr. Dundov
was so friendly and into what he was talking about it felt as if everyone was
just having a conversation about history.
It’s really cool when a teacher can make learning fun and interesting
and that’s what I appreciated from the seminar.
We learned about the
Etruscans and how they were the first civilization in Rome and the origins are
really unknown but they are the basis of the culture in Rome. We also found out about the technologies that
the Romans were the first to create. The Romans were the first to make aqueducts
(water systems), sewage systems and roads. A very interesting fact that I learned is that
the Romans use arches a lot in their architecture. They figured that arches not only look great
they can be strong structures and can save materials. The most interesting things that I went in the
class wanting to learn about were how Julius Caesar came to power as an emperor.
Mr. Dundov told us a story about a war that Caesar was in where an emperor was
hiding within the walls of his city and he wouldn’t come out. Caesar then built another wall around the emperor’s
original walls to make sure he couldn’t escape or get help without running into
Caesars army. Somehow the emperor tried to get help so Caesar had another wall
built around again. That is a lot of
determination to get just ONE person. I learned that it was mainly because of
the Caesars military that he was able to become the emperor of Rome. Although
he technically was the first emperor of Rome he isn’t really credited as the
first official emperor of Rome. Octavian Augustus is credited as the first
official emperor of Rome. Some fun things I also learned were that the month of
July was named July because of Julius Caesar. Also the procedure known as Cesarean Sections on women during child birth is named after Julius Caesar because that
is how he was born. Although Caesar was
a powerful leader he started to take advantage of the power he was given and
became a tyrant which would later be the reason for his assassination. A lot of questions that I had were definitely
answered in this seminar. I left again a very happy camper. Like the prior
seminars the time just flew by and it was a little bittersweet because I was so
into the class and I wanted to learn more and more. I went into the car and
told my mom some of the cool things that I just learned in the class. I left and gave my mom a lesson in the car
until she begged me to stop! I am very thankful for the experiences in the last
three classes and to all of my teachers I’ve learned so much over the past 3
weeks. Thank you! –Courtney Manriquez
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