end of week 1 Photo 3

end of week 1

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May 29th 2009
today was lovely, we went to the palotine hill, the imperial palace for the ancient roman emperors. then we went to the collosieum and the roman forum which were of course interesting. it was looking like rain in rome, but thanks to my dad ashley and I had ponchos! we then had a discussion on how unsanitary rome and europe was in general in ancient times, which really shed a new light on rome for ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more