The Roman Journal

volume 1 2,00 Rome empire, November 16

Head Lines. 1. International affairs 2. Roman empire economics 3. Breaking news international politics 4. Technology section 5. Sports section 6. Entertainment section 7. Cultural Section 8. Entertainment

The Great Flavius Theodosius has died of a vascular edema, the disease apparently had pursued in recent years. According to the medical report, the governor died in a farm located in Milan. Apparently, before dying, the governor of our Roman Empire declared that the empire would be splitted out into two parts.

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International Affairs
Mongolians take Xian. A revitalized Parthian empire has renewed its assault to the limits of the barbarian society. The conflicts between the barbarians and the imperial government of China has lead to a war between them. It has been reported that through the last years the Chinese government has come up with the defeat of barbarian groups near Xian, previously called Changan. Xian is a cultural centre along the Silk road and the capital for 12 dynasties. It is also the resting place of many Chinese emperors, including the grand mausoleum of Emperor Qin of the Qin Dynasty. Not being enough the international conflicts that China have to overcome, it has been pointed out an internal conflict that needs to be solved before this dinasty comes to an end. More specifically it has been reported to this newspaper that Beijing, the key military and trading centre over the silk road in China, has been conquered by the mongolians along with Jurchen Jin, and it has been named Zhongdu, this leaves China without a centre of political, social and economic

command, increasing the barbarian chances to conquer China and acquire more military power, a threat to the Roman empire.

Potential Plague Threat

Barbarian Hostilities.

By hearing about the outbreak of Barbarian hostilities in China and in the limits of the Roman Empire, the emperor has decided to send his colleague with orders to command the legions stationed in the East to face the invader. The war is thought to have its start by the end of this year. This important war has been assigned to the general Gaius Avidius Vero Casio. It is hoped that when he returns from his campaign, barbarians leave the empire.

In other international affairs, Britania has come up with a plague known as the Antonine Plague, or the Plague of Galen, which threatens to spread through the Roman Empire. The disease turned into an uncontrollable pandemic variety of smallpox and measles, and has killed over a two thousand people. An estimated of one million people would die if the plague spreads through Rome during this year. Risk factors that may contribute to the transmission of the plague include smoking and, especially, not wearing protection when working with sick animalsthereby increasing the likelihood of subsequent hand-to-eye, handto-nose or hand-to-mouth transmission, then other people breathe in the virus or touch something with the virus on it and then touch their own face. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.

Diego Andrs Hernndez Cd.: 02215052

Roman Empire Economics

The Roman Empire is marking the end of the classical period and the times of the feudalism would begin. It is important to know the importance of the empire because in this times the humanity are making a few discoveries that will became critical in a future period. Despite the age of gold in the Roman Empire the human race is falling in the stage of the feudalism. Consequently humans do not see new scientists advances that probably would be until the beginning of another century. There is a work social division based in an interregional commerce that built an economy direct by an efficient market system. The majority of people think that the fall of Roman Empire will be cause by continues attacks of the barbarian tribes but it is not completely true; the collapse of the interconnected economic will have a big relevance. In the same way the social welfare state (bread and circus) supported by the Roman Empire became weak the economic save of all the Empire. The reason of this is because the roman emperors are worried about the admiration of their people and they do not think about the way to carry a continuous economy develop. In addition the roman government distributes free food for all the roman citizens, this situation cause that the agriculture is not profitable economically. For this reason farmers have left land zones and have moved to cities where the food is free and they do not have to work for getting it. Consequently, the population in most of roman cities is increasing exorbitant. Notably the poverty in some cities raise and the output of food decrease worrying. Consequently roman emperors execute economy policies to get better the circumstances; one of this ways is to create inflation in the empire economy to solve the evils of the increase expense, but it have a bad consequence because the price of rations and other goods of first necessity increase prime. In this way the political interventionist of the emperor place maximums prices in most of goods that consequently is creating shortage in the way of amplifies the demand and decrease the supply of it; these government abuses create distortions and inefficiency in markets. Now the roman emperors have established laws to prevent the migration of farmers to the cities, condition that laid the foundations of the feudal servitude. Briefly the trade in the Roman Empire is destroying; the traffic of grains and essential items have disappeared. The citizens have to move to the land to grow their own food and not die by the shortage of rations in the cities. People are tired of taxes imposed by emperors and the government interventionist. A final point is that the Roman Kingdom is unable to adjust it moral code and it legal system with the demands of the market economy.

By: Diego Andrs Olaya Lasso

Breaking news INTERNAL POLITICS

The Great Flavius Theodosius has died of a vascular edema, the disease apparently had pursued in recent years. years old boy. The Empire should not be in the hands of a small child because clearly he is not ready to assume this important position. In the other hand there are people who believe that the general and the child couple would be a constructive team to solve the issues Rome currently has. However, this leaves our empire in a very worrying position, because our enemies seeing an Emperor so young they will not hesitate to attack us. Secondly, our eastern neighbor has Arcadio as emperor, the eldest son of Flavius Theodosius not much older than his younger brother. The analysts are concern of a major theme that is the ambivalence felt by prominent individuals and the court parties that formed and regrouped round them towards barbarians, which in Constantinople are called Goths. It is expected that minor rebellions and uprisings will be common events throughout the government of the Emperor Arcadio. Conquered tribes or cities could revolt, and the legions would be detached to crush the rebellion. It has been reported to this newspaper that Greeks and Jewish religious tensions, are growing with anti-taxation protests and attacks upon Roman citizens. This pair of siblings will have the difficult task of not only protecting the interests of the Roman Empire, but also must work in harmony together to overcome problems that have received government of Rome during the late emperors, including the government of their late father, as investigators analyze that The West belonging to Arcadio will be less urbanized and less densely populated because of the great chances of epidemic and territory problems. The region might have experienced an economic decline throughout the Late Empire in some provinces because of the split up of the Empire. Southern Italy, northern Gaul (except for large towns and cities) to some extent Spain and the Danubian areas have been suffered. As time goes by the East, has been wealthier although the big break up. For now, we must honor Flavius Theodosius, who will be remembered as the last emperor of a unified Roman Empire.

The new governor of east empire, Flavio Honorio.

According to the medical report, the governor died in a farm located in Milan. Apparently, before dying, the governor of our Roman Empire declared that the empire would be splitted out into two parts: Leaving the East and the Western Empire which new capitals will be Constantinople and Rome respectively, whose emperors are ment to be his two eldest sons; Arcadius will must rule the empire of the East while his brother Honorius will rule the empire of the West. With this act, finally the relations between eastern and western parts of the empire have been broken. The question we all ask at this point is: What will happen now in our empire of the West? The new emperor Flavius Honorius is just a 10

Technology SECTION
Throughout the years, our army has been the tool to rule the world. Mainly because the Roman military technology is currently the more advanced. Given this introduction we will present you the newest weapon developed by our intellectuals and philosophers in Greece, which is the main point to sustain the government over the empire. We are talking about the Ballista a device compound of an arch and a bucket. The early ballista was developed from two weapons called oxybeles and gastraphetes. The gastraphetes ('belly-bow') was a hand held crossbow. It had a composite prod and was spanned with both hands, with a ratchet preventing it from shooting while loading. The power available was not sufficient to be used successfully against armoured troops. The oxybeles was a bigger and heavier construction employing a winch, and was mounted on a tripod. It had a lower rate of fire and was used as a siege engine. Since these delivered munitions weapons lighter (thus delivering less energy on impact) it is a widely held opinion that our army could used more as an anti-personnel role, or to destroy lighter structures. A less accurate weapon like an onager or other singlearm artillery could hit with more force, and thus would be the more useful weapon against reinforced wood or heavy masonry. So when you see it, you can feel proud of the Roman genius and power.

Manuel Andrs Leguizamn Fajardo 261402

SPORTS SECTION
Its time to read some sports in this paper!!!!! roman GAMBLING! empires other team using only the palm of his hand must do it again and so on until someone loses. Now the difference in these new rules for this especial game will be that the players will be gladiators and they have to throw the ball WITH THEIR SWORDS and if they accidentally cut another player, it is allowed. And finally the loser team will be throw to the lions! So dont you miss this especial games, the first will happen in Constantinople the first day of November at the dawn and the second one will happen in the first day of December at the dawn, and in the next dawn the losing team will be throw to the lions. The matches will last from dawn to sunset so bring food and water, and see you then folks.

Gamblers allowed! Its time for you gamblers to make your bets in all of the different games in the new casinos in both Rome and Constantinople! The casinos are placed in the top of the top places in both capitals of our new divide empires; in Rome, you can find them in the coliseum and in the circus maximus, and in Constantinople you can find them in the hippodrome, but watch out you gamblers in Constantinople, you know the new religion the Christianity doesnt like that kind of behavior. As always the gambles are in different games such as DICE GAMES, BOARD GAMES, HORSE AND CHARIOT RACING AND SEA BATTLES (only at the circus maximus), JUMPING WREASTLING AND GLADIATORIAL COMBATS (between them, between gladiators and fierce animals and only in Rome between gladiators and CHRISTIANS!) So go now to try the different things they got to offer and to try one of the greatest sports in the

News about the handball championship As you know our handball championship was ended by the news than our beloved Roman Empire had been divided in two, the west Roman Empire and the east Roman Empire, so the great championship was canceled. But now theres a new hope because the two emperors have decided that theres going to be a GREAT FINAL MATCH BETWEEN THE BEST PLAYERS OF THE WEST AND EAST ROMAN EMPIRES! Oh yes people, like the rumors were saying, theres going to be a great final match between our great empires. This match will be divided in two matches, one in Rome coliseum and the other in the hippodrome of Constantinople. The rules in this match will be a little different; we all know the rules of the normal handball game in which the players are put in front of a wall, then a ball is given to them and the point of the game is to throw the ball to the wall and then a player of the

Gladiatorial combats The combats continue like always in the coliseum at Rome, this last day of the week we will have two specials besides the usual gladiator vs. gladiator, we will have tigers vs. gladiators and in animal combats we will have bears vs. mastins. You better dont miss the show or youll regret it!

Jumping contest Theres going to be a jumping contest tomorrow at the coliseum there will be two categories long jump and high jump, the emperor will give the winner of each category three bags of golden coins, so if you thing you can win dont miss it.

List of events at the circus maximus Today in the afternoon there will be horse racing and after there will be chariot racing. And the next week there will be sea battles so dont miss it because there will be a special participation of the best from the best in horse and chariot racing and sea battles. Its a surprise youll have to go to know who am I talking about, dont you miss it. The participation of any women in the sports previously mentioned is FORBIDDEN if one shall participate, she will be executed. Thanks for reading this column and for subscribing to the paper. Sincerely, the editor of the sports section. Santigo pire.

Science
EXPERTS SAY THAT THE EMPIRE WAS DIVIDED BECAUSE OF SLAVERY

Aristobulo Cartago, which is sitting on a bench in the square. Although the emperor authorized soldiers to not bring slaves and promoted the use of mill to grind wheat, economy decreases at a significant rate each year, with increasing looting pirates. The researchers propose the creation of more academies for young people to study technical because they have the creativity to invent tools for the empire, avoid buying slaves and employ qualified people, it keeps the rich richer and the poor poorer and in this way the markets will not continue to decline and having a fewer production. "Otherwise, people will soon feel the consequences" says Teofilo Theocrata, of the Roman Academy.

DESCRIBES NASAL POLYPS AND SYNOVIAL LIQUIDS The famous doctor, author of works such as "Epitome and "Memorandum", and author of several volumes of encyclopedias of medicine, surgery and obstetrics, has published his latest work, "Hypomnema" a description of the nasal polyp, synovial liquids and also recounts the surgical excision of ribs for the treatment of pleural emphysema, with observations on the eyes and tips for military doctors. "These must investigate and prevent diseases, as a nasal polyp or emphysema may be so severe as to cause asthma and respiratory problems," says the famous doctor. Among his more controversial writings, there is a description of synovial fluid as compared with the white of an egg "should be a little more liquid to articulate better bones" these other researchers, who are opposed to the idea of Egina. His work can be achieved in the libraries of the Senate, or a $ 500 solid Byzantines.

Scientists and philosophers of the empire surveyed over 1000 people in New Rome to find a general opinion about the division of the kingdom. "Now we live in New Rome because the Emperor Constantine the Great promised new schools for all citizens." ensures Vespucio Greco, a resident of 31 years old. According to the study, about 71 percent of people believe that society is too dependent on slaves, and they do not use the slaves in a complete form. The study also found that the animals were left to use for work activities by 31 percent, while the use of water power machinery grown only 5 percent. "Slaves are more hired than workers in the estates, so many of us have lost their jobs" says

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Entertainment section!
Exclusive!! lectisternio ever!! First Apolo and Latona, Diana and Hercules, and, Mercurio and Neptuno, all of them attended in couples. The purpose of this celebration was to honor the gods, and it was done with a great banquet, in which they were invited to participate, even, we saw that there were beds for them to be more comfortable, great idea! Wasnt it? .As every good pagan ceremony there was a priest, or as they use to call him, an epulon, and he was in charge of the rituals performed during the whole celebration. For our correspondents it was really strange to see gods statues lying in beds, but they told us this celebration was a complete success, so much so, it lasted about eight days!! Its amazing how much gods can celebrate. Evidently, the first lectisternio was a great party; we hope they invite us to the next one.

One of the most amazing events this year is the celebration of the first official lectisternio. Our newspaper was right there covering the event. Let us see what we found. This event was named as lectisternio due to the general tendency for the guests including gods- to lie on beds while they are celebrating.This exclusive celebration took place at the temple. As we saw, one of the most important things of the event was the presence of the deities:

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