Joe

Jobs: Leader: Erika/ will is co-leader referee/ timer:Iamni Recorder: Joe __What I did:__ organized meeting times made sure everyone was there researched made summary made power point made script for power point.
 * agree on topic
 * give group members specific topics.
 * Decide on how to get class participation
 * get power point done
 * get religon game done
 * Rehearse

joe's Urls: __Secondary Sources:__ http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/romans/religion.shtml This is a really good site that i found that tells who the romans worshipped, where they worshipped, and what they sacrificed. http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/philosophy/ this is also a great site because it gives, names, dates, and what they did. __Primary Source: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/tacitus-hist4a.html__ This seems like a good primary source, it is about one of the romans sacrificing to Minerva__
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Summary: In the Roman times everything revovled around their religon or their belief system. The Romans believed in the Gods/goddesses in the first half of the roman existence. The three main gods and goddesses were Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva. These gods were the same gods that the Greeks believed in the Romans just changed the name. The gods were the almighty power, the citizens of rome had to pray to them for about almost everything, for example they would pray to Posiden the God of the Sea before going on a sea adventure, they would pray, and they would pray to Mars (also known as ares) god of war. After awhile a new religon popped into existence, and it was called christianity. Cristianity was mainly a religion of the servants and the poor people, and this religon and the mai religon of that time clashed when it came to sacrifices to the gods and and to the emperor, because the christians absolutly refused to preform the rituals for a religon that they didn't belive in. The main difference though was instead of beliveing in many different gods, the christians only believed in one god. eventually though the Chrisitan faith spread to so far that constantine, an emperor, made it the offical religon of rome, and he too converted to christianity.

__Information!!! Religon: __
 * for a long time the romans believed in roman gods and goddesses, and they assigned them to specific jobs, or they used these gods as explaination for natural phenomena.
 * they Main Gods/Goddesses that they worshipped were: Jupiter, who was the most important of the gods he was the god of the sky, Juno who was Jupiters wife, was the goddess of women. Neptune, who was the brother of Jupiter, was the god of the sea, minerva, goddess of wisdom, Mars, who was the god of war, Venus, who was the goddess of love.
 * The roman people worshipped in temples where they where they made sacrifices of animals and precious things.
 * The Romans believed that your spirit went to the underworld after you died.
 * They also believed that emperors became gods, so they would make sacrifices to the emperors. This is where the CHristians, and the believers of gods/goddesses got into conflict, because the christians refused to make sacrifices whats so ever, and they were forced to practice their religon in secrecy. Despite the secrecy more people started to go to the christian faith, it was so popular that Constantine had to make christianity the main religon of the roman empire.

__ Philosophy: __
 * Romans didn't start to study philosophy until 200 B.C., at that time the Romans were conquering Greece, while in in some Greek states some soldiers had heard about Plato, Ariestotle, and Socrates, and about their thoughts were, and this got the philosphy for the romans going.
 * One of the first roman men to study philosophy was lucretius, he followed the greek epecurian philosophy, which was a philisophical group that formed during the Hellinistec Period. He wrote a poem called on the nature of things, which explained epicurean religion to those who couldn't read latin.