Today in 117AD Hadrian, the adopted son of Trajan, became the new Roman Emperor. Trajan had ruled for nearly twenty years and had enlarged the Empire greatly. Hadrian in his twenty one year rule would be just as good for Rome. He left behind four great building works, which remain today.
The first was to rebuild Agrippa’s Pantheon, adding the 141ft diameter Dome. It has massive bronze doors and now a church, has buried two of Italy’s kings and the artist Raphael amongst others.
On the river Tiber is the Castel San Angelo, another stone dome building, this one built as his own tomb. It has been used as a fortress by more than one Pope when Rome has been threatened. It housed Pope Clement VII when the forces of the (Spanish)Holy Roman Empire sacked the city in 1527. It is well worth a visit if you ever go to Rome. A coffee from the battlements’ cafe’ is a good end to a walk around the military museum it is now.
The third monument is the beautiful Villa at Tivoli.
Lastly is the wall he had constructed in the North of England to keep out those pesky Picts(Scots). It was 15ft high and stretched 73 miles from coast tocoast and there was a fort every five miles.
Hadrian had been unwell for some time and despite seeking death and requesting it of his adopted son Pius, who refused to aid him, he died aged 62 in his villa at Baie on the Bay of Naples.
Test from 1912 for 8th graders… IS F-in HARD!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/12/1912-eighth-grade-exam_n_3744163.html
Holy…
I just got my ass kicked in the history section. Grammar definitions probably not too much better…
Check it out for yourself.
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That was torture and I loved it! Thank you Garg.
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I did not know the last Civil War battle, so was happy to google that.
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They had to draw important people? For Points?!?!?!? I would have failed so badly.
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What were the 3 biggest states? You had 48 then am I right?
Texas is the only one I know for sure.
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Florida, and Alaska.
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Florida really?
Alaska was not a state in 1912, otherwise I thought it was the biggest.
Thanks Garg.Not sure you would pass in the drawing of important people though Garg.
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Didn’t think it was terribly hard, although deciphering the antiquated grammar/question formulation, the jumbled resolution of the pic, and unfamiliar abbreviations of the arithmetic section made it unnecessarily difficult. And the grammar section, which I never pay attention to and think it’s a lot of hoopla over arbitrary nonsense.
Everything else I passed with ease, more or less.
California would be in the largest states of the time, I think.
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