Pompeii

By Idrees Jamil

What Is Pompeii?• Pompeii is a city with a terrible

history. The Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79AD. This is a eruption that hit the small city of Pompeii, and almost destroyed it from existence.

Mt Vesuvius!!!

Today 2 million people live in the immediate vicinity of Mt Vesuvius . This deadly mountain has erupted over 50 times since the eruption of 79AD. It is 1, 281m (4200ft) high, in Southern Italy, on the Eastern shore of Bay Of Naples.

What made Mt Vesuvius so ferocious?

Mt Vesuvius was so ferocious because it split in to three explosions. Each explosion being worst than the one before. The first explosion was when it erupted. The second explosion made Pumice fall from the mountain, and was extremely dangerous, also the gas slowly started spreading and people stared suffocating from the poison Carbon Monoxide the gas bought with it. The final explosion caused a pyroclastic flow which came at over a 100 mph, and wiped out the remaining bits of the city and its population.

Map Of Italy

Pompeii

Pliny the younger!

• Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 AD – ca. 112 AD), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome. Pliny's uncle, (Pliny the Elder), helped raise and educate him, and they were both witnesses to the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD.

Pliny the Elder!

Gaius Plinius Secundus -or, to use his English name, Pliny- was born in 23 or 24 at Novum Comum (modern Como), a small city in the region known as Gallia Transpadana. We do not know much about his family, except for the fact that he had a sister, and that his father was wealthy enough to be a member of the equestrian class, which means that he possessed at least 400,000 sesterces (100,000 normal day wages).

Pliny’s account “The cloud was rising from a mountain - at such a distance we

couldn't tell which, but afterwards learned that it was Vesuvius. I can best describe its shape by likening it to a pine tree. It rose into the sky on a very long "trunk" from which spread some "branches." I imagine it had been raised by a sudden blast, which then weakened, leaving the cloud unsupported so that its own weight caused it to spread sideways. Some of the cloud was white, in other parts there were dark patches of dirt and ash. ... Broad sheets of flame were lighting up many parts of Vesuvius; their light and brightness were the more vivid for the darkness of the night... The buildings were being rocked by a series of strong tremors, and appeared to have come loose from their foundations and to be sliding this way and that. Outside, however, there was danger from the rocks that were coming down, light and fire-consumed as these bits of pumice were ... It was daylight now elsewhere in the world, but there the darkness was darker and thicker than any night ... Then came a smell of sulphur, announcing the flames, and the flames themselves.”

Roman Gods!!

Roman people believed in many different gods, they also believed that it was the gods punishments when anything bad happened to them, for doing something wrong in the past. The name of the Roman Gods were based on the names of Planets in our Solar System. Every God had it’s own responsibilities. Each God was there for specific reason.

Roman Gods

• Jupiter - King of the Gods• Juno - Queen of the Gods• Neptune - God of the Sea• Pluto - God of Death• Apollo - God of the Sun• Diana - Goddess of the Moon• Mars - God of War• Venus - Goddess

Roman Gods

• Cupid - God of Love• Mercury - Messenger of the Gods• Minerva - Goddess of Wisdom• Ceres - The Earth Goddess• Proserpine - Goddess of the Underworld• Vulcan - The Smith God• Bacchus - God of Wine• Saturn - God of Time• Vesta - Goddess of the Home

Roman Gods

• Janus - God of Doors• Uranus and Gaia -

Parents of Saturn• Maia - Goddess of

Growth• Flora - Goddess of

Flowers• Plutus - God of

Wealth

Roman Gods

Monsters

Cerberus - Dog of the Underworld

Gorgon - Turns you to stone