Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (1)

Today in class we planned to see the movie Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire. However, Mr. Schick's laptop was having trouble with the sound. Mr. Schick had tried everything he could do to have gotten the video to work, but nothing happened. Eventually, he unplugged his computer from the desk, and took it with him outside the classroom. All of us thought that he wasn't in a very good mood, so we decided to hook one of our computers to his desk so the movie could display correctly. The computer played the movie with sound too, so when he came back, he saw all of us watching the movie with sound. He seemed pretty surprised after that. We ended up taking notes on the parts in the movie we saw. We noted that King Tiberius's son led the attack on Carthage, and with that came much more land for the Roman Empire. We also saw that many of the citizens of Rome were very poor, and had either lost their farms, or were slaves.