Introduction

You would think that two nations that are twenty thousand years apart would have nothing in common with one another. Well, in the next couple of weeks that is what you will be finding out. You will focus on researching the different aspects of the Roman Empire of the 1st century, enabling yourself to compare and contrast Roman life then to life in the United States now. You will first work in groups to do research, then you will work individually to write a comparative paper. Let us start to uncover how similar or different we are from the Romans of the 1st century!