Did you know? The Roman calendar had 12 months named after gods and emperors. For example, August is named after Emperor Augustus.
SOURCE4 When the Pantheon was given to the Christians in 608, it was preserved with few changes apart from additions such as this Christian altar.
5.12 SkillBuilder activity COMMUNICATING In history, we use arguments to understand the past and must ensure our reasoning is correct. An argument is a group of sentences arranged so that the sentence called the ‘conclusion’ is said to follow from the other sentences that are called the ‘premises’. A logical argument is one in which the conclusion follows from the premises. A fallacy is a misleading argument, or an argument based on reasoning errors. A common mistake is thinking that if one event happens ýrst, it causes the next. This is a fallacy. An example could be the following argument: Premise 1: In 284 CE, the Roman Emperor Diocletian divided Rome into Eastern and Western empires under two separate emperors. Premise 2: The Western Roman Empire declined and fell during the following two centuries. Conclusion: Dividing the Roman Empire caused the Western Roman Empire to collapse. This argument might seem reasonable until you consider what you get if you use the same kind of reasoning for a different argument. For example: Premise 1: The team ate big servings of oranges during half-time in the game. Premise 2: The team scored its winning goals in the second half of the game. Conclusion: Eating oranges caused the team to win. The reasoning error with both arguments is assuming that the ýrst event must be the cause of the second event without demonstrating any causal link between the two events. Construct a logical argument with at least two premises and a conclusion to show how ancient Greek culture was passed on to the modern world through Roman culture.
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