Everything i know about Italy


Introduction - This blog is about Italy and everything I know about Italy. I am going to be talking about all the historical monuments, the people who found Italy, famous people, and famous paintings. I think that the historical monuments are important because the people who built the monuments have worked really hard and put a lot of time into making them. The reason why I am going to be looking up famous painters is because they where once know for nothing but then they tried something that they love and they ended up being famous because of their art.

              The first thing i am going to find out about is the monuments and find out why the people who built the monuments and why the called it that. I am first going to start out with the Roman Colosseum. The Roman Colosseum was built in 72 AD. The reason why they built it was for fighting challenges that they called man vs. beast. When it was man vs. beast there where so many lives lost both man and animals. About 500,000 people lost to the beast, and over 1 million animals lost there lives to man so either way someone died even if it was man or beast. All though it took a long to to build that they didn't start the fighting until 435 AD. Many of times the fights would have lasted up to 100 days because nothing would have changed besides getting chased or getting attacked. They used 60,000 Jewish slaves to build the Colosseum and that only took 9 years for it to be complete and i believe that when it was done that they had the Jewish slaves to be killed by the beasts. But my favorite monument has to be the leaning tower of Pisa because my mom told me that when she went to Italy that it was really cool seeing the tower lean when it was straight and then one day it just fell over and stayed like that. But people say that one day it is just going to fall over or people will try to make it straight again.

              I am now going to talk about the famous paintings and they the people who painted then painted them. The first painting that I know by heart is the Mona Lisa painting. The person who painted the Mona Lisa painting was Leonardo Da Vinci. He was a inventor how loved to paint and invent things because he thought that it would make him different from everyone else because they didn't have the mind that he does. It says that his inventions have every little effort into them but he has drown them with so much detail into his inventions. All thought his inventions may not have that much effort in them they ended up begin really important to us right now because he invented the car and we use cars to get around from place to place so he may not have been that good back in the day but they are now. All in all I think that Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the best famous people because he really made a difference in are lives.

           I am going to talk about who was the first person who discover Italy and other things about Italy. I found out that Italy was first known for farming village land so there weren't any famous monuments. But about 800 BC Italy was a powerful empire ruled by Greeks and Roman. The Greeks ended up not wanting Italy anymore so it was the Roman from then on. It says that they two groups Greeks and Romans where once united. With the divided parts of Italy between Romans and Greeks there was two different empires a Western Empire and a Eastern Empire. Romulus and Remus where to believe to be the true founders of Italy. The two twin brothers where both shepherds and they started to fight with shepherds from Amulius. The two brothers killed the shepherd from Amulius and the people gave them a crown but they didn't want it they made their own little town. They would only take people who wanted a second chance they included so many people because they thought that everyone needed a second chance to live so in their town when they started to build it they asked people if they wanted a second chance to live and a lot of them said yes because their lives where bed enough. However they didn't agree on somethings like where the city would go. After he was killed the other twin brother name Rome after himself on April 21, 735 BC.

           All in all i may not know everything about Italy but i do know that these things are important to know about Italy. Honestly I think that Leonardo Da Vinci helped us out because without him we wouldn't have the things we have now. His paintings where amazing i wish that he was still alive so he can teach me how to do art like that because it is so good and plus i want to be a famous artist when i grow up so right now he is the person who inspires me to do something I like to do because he had a dream and that dream was to change the world and make it a different place where there is art and new inventions and this kinda what I want in life. The other thing that I may think is cool is that the twin brothers Romulus and Remus where going to run a kingdom for the people who wanted a second chance. But i still can't believe that Remus was killed because the twins couldn't agree on where they where going to put there kingdom. The Colosseum may not be my favorite but it is the one that had the most lives lost just by fighting against a beast. I always thought that it was broken but they just built it in different places that make it look broken. But i have to say that my favorite monument from Italy in the Leaning Tower Of Pisa.