This is the roman helmet that commanders wore.

Roman Armour

The Roman's latest armour is very cool. It makes me want it.

Pictures

Women wear Stola's:

Journal Entry

Friday- April 24, 2009

Dear Journal, 

Today was a very important day because it was my first meeting for my new clothing industry called "Triple AGL Roman Clothing Industry" I woke up and I was stressing out because I couldn't decide what to wear... I usually wore a toga or a tunica but today I didn't know which one to wear. I need to look the best for my first impression. Since yesterday I wore a tunica, today I should wear a toga. I need to look fancy and look formal at the same time. I guess I will just wear a toga today. Shoes... OH MY GOD Shoes! I don't know if I want to wear... Stay bare feet or wear sandals... What to decide.... I know i'll pick what to wear out of a hat. I got a hat and drew out Shoes... Okay today I am wearing a toga and shoes! I went outside to go to work and I looked the best out of all the people at the meeting! My thinking really helped. At the meeting I was forming a new type of clothing for men. I thought of something original and something not too fancy. Maybe something to wear semi-formally. I decided to use the style of a toga and tunica combined. I thought for a while and came up with an idea that was sooo great that it blew my mind off! I thought of having the toga with the string and the sleeve pattern from the tunica. It is going to be called the "Toganica"! My newest invention will become the best and most popular type of "Toganica" there is! YES!

Another Fact

Here's another fact: Clothing showed status. The more patterned and embroided your clothing was, the more rich and popular you were. Emperors wore wreaths and very bright clothing, as slaves wore regular, unfancy white sheets. Even footwear classified how important you were. They say clothes don't matter- it's whats on the inside that counts... but in ancient rome, the better the clothes meant the better the person.
Romans liked to strut their stuff!

Roman Men's Fashions

Roman Men usually wore the Tunica and the Toga

The Stola- Fact #1

     The stola was the traditional garment for Roman women to wear over their tunica (under dress). Women often wore a palla (wrap) over top of their stola. A girdle held the Stola in place. This garment usually came as low as the ankles while the tunica reached just below the knee. Women were considered disgraceful if they wore a toga, which is a male garment. The women wore the long pleated stola only when married. This type of stola was a symbol that you were married. Many rich women wore stola's with a wide ornamental border on the lower hem or the stola or tunica, this showed their status and wealth.

     The stola sounds like a simple piece of clothing that I would never be caught dead in today!

- Georgie

Roman Footwear

The Romans would either wear sandals like the one to the left or walk around barefoot.

This is an archimedes

They invented the catapult first.

The catapult in action!!!!!!

Ballista

Torsion Bar Suspension

Torsion Bar Suspension

Spring Ends

Torsion Spring Ends & Helical Spring Ends

Catapult Pictures

Catapults: Torsion and Original

Torsion Clock Picture

Here is the Torsion Clock and it is powered by the Torsion Spring

Picture for Part Duex

Mousetrap powered by a helical torsion spring

Technology Review Part Duex!

Dear Editor,

I like the Roman Catapult because it can store more energy than bows and it throws a great distance. I also like the Roman Catapult because it is very strong and has a very good use to it. I think that this Roman Catapult is a good machine for wars because it is strong enough to launch something like rocks to faraway places and attack the enemies. It is especially useful in wars because it can throw two missiles at once to the enemies' location. The Roman Catapult can launch two missiles at once only because of a winched pull back system, this advantage is another positive side to the Roman Catapult. I liked how later on this Roman Catapult was developed to a higher level just like an upgrade. They could then launch arrows and then the Roman Catapult was then used as an arrow-shooting machine. The reason that this Roman Catapult could launch arrows is because of the size of the springs on the actual Catapult which made it fly farther and it made it stronger too. I thought that it was a good thing to change the size of the springs and I liked how the Romans learned that changing the springs would affect the distance of the throw. I also liked how the Roman Catapult has affected us today because in the past, the Romans changed the Catapult. The Romans started using the Torsion Catapult which is the same thing as the original but then the spring is much stronger. This change to the spring really helped the Romans because they then could launch even heavier missiles with great force. I thought that this change was a good positive side to this Torsion Catapult. This Catapult relates to today because Torsion springs or bars are used to support automobile suspension components. This Torsion spring is also used today to power mouse traps so it snaps quickly and easily, it is also used as a spring which rotates the clock gears back and forth. There is no down side to this Torsion Catapult because it was easy to move because it had wheels so a group of men could push it to the location where they have to fire a missile. There is also no down side because it could launch great distances and never fail. I really like this Torsion Catapult! But not only the Torsion Catapult, I even liked the original Catapult!

Our Enemies Will Fear Us

This is one of our enemies, Kayevill, about to be crushed by a huge boulder. We could not have accomplished this without the catapult. Look at the fear in his eyes! The catapult sure has made our lives easier!

The Plans

Romans Alytronum and Kayleslim look over the plans for "The Catapult"

Catapults...

The Catapult

We have amazing news! Here in 399 BC, we Romans have invented the catapult!!! This machine can throw objects great distances without the use of exposives, and us humans barely have to lift a finger! the catapult works by tying a bucket to a rolling platform. We place whatever we want to fling in the bucket. when the rope is cut, the contents of the bucket go flying up into the air, hitting whatever might be down there! We can easily attack castles and fortresses without having to heave huge objects ourselves. Army general Gaslagius says:
" The catapult has made a huge difference to our lives. What a beautiful sight it is to see boulders 700 times the weight of me being thrown up into the air and crushing the enemy!"
Our finest designers all got to work on April 2nd to develop the idea of "the large object flinger", which was the catapults nickname back when it wa just an idea. Roman designer A. Remanus was able to bring the idea to life. We have invented three different types of cataputs: the trebuchet, the onager, and the mangonel, and they all work splendidly well. Although most of our attempts at the catapult have been a success, army general Alytronum would like us to make the following announcement: the army is extremely sorry for Ashjarit, who was the "guinea pig" for the first try at the catapult. Ashjarit is currently at the hospital with several broken bones, and is not expected to ever act decently again.


Thank you to all you Romans, you made the catapult a great success!

Alyssa, Ash, Liz, Georgie, and Adam reporting.