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Caligula: The Erratic Roman Emperor With Sadistic Tendencies

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Title:

 Caligula: The Erratic Roman Emperor With Sadistic Tendencies

URL:

 https://dailydosedocumentary.com/caligula/

Content Source:

 Other
Daily Dose Documentary
Type: Audio/Video

Overview:

This video from the Daily Dose provides a 3-minute micro-learning film on Caligula, a Roman emperor who was the victim of an unknown illness resulting in erratic, impulsive, and sadistic behavior. Caligula's excesses and draining of the treasury would result in a conspiracy among senators to assassinate the mentally ill emperor.

Content Standard(s):
Social Studies
SS2010 (2010)
Grade: 8
World History to 1500
6 ) Trace the expansion of the Roman Republic and its transformation into an empire, including key geographic, political, and economic elements.

Examples: expansion—illustrating the spread of Roman influence with charts, graphs, timelines, or maps

transformation—noting reforms of Augustus, listing effects of Pax Romana

•  Interpreting spatial distributions and patterns of the Roman Republic using geographic tools and technologies
Unpacked Content
Strand: Economics, Geography, History, Civics and Government
Course Title: World History to 1500
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
  • Analyze the influence of the Roman Republic, including reforms and the Pax Romana.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • Roman Republic
  • transformation
  • geographic, political, and economic elements
  • spatial distributions
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • Details of the expansion of the Roman Republic and its transformation into an empire. Key geographic, political, and economic elements of the Roman Empire.
  • The spatial distributions and patterns of the Roman Republic.
  • How Rome gained control of the Mediterranean region events leading to the creation of a Roman empire.
  • The reforms of Augustus.
  • Effects of the Pax Romana.
Skills:
Student are able to:
  • Analyze textual evidence of primary and secondary sources.
  • Locate places on a map.
  • Analyze the effects of geography on culture.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • The Roman Republic evolved from a republic into an empire, and it later expanded.
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
SS.AAS.8.6- Locate ancient Rome and the empire on a map; identify at least one significant contribution from ancient Rome in the fields of politics, intellectual life, arts, literature, architecture, or science.
Social Studies
SS2010 (2010)
Grade: 8
World History to 1500
7 ) Describe the widespread impact of the Roman Empire.

Example: spread of Roman law and political theory, citizenship and slavery, architecture and engineering, religions, sculptures and paintings, literature, and the Latin language

•  Tracing important aspects of the diffusion of Christianity, including its relationship to Judaism, missionary impulse, organizational development, transition from persecution to acceptance in the Roman Empire, and church doctrine
•  Explaining the role of economics, societal changes, Christianity, political and military problems, external factors, and the size and diversity of the Roman Empire in its decline and fall
Unpacked Content
Strand: Economics, Geography, History, Civics and Government
Course Title: World History to 1500
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
  • Analyze the history and impact of the Roman Empire on later societies.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • diffusion
  • persecution
  • doctrine
  • external factors
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • The impact/influence of the Roman Empire on the world including cultural achievements.
  • How to trace important aspects of the spread of Christianity such as how it relates to Judaism, its organization, and its doctrine. The reasons behind the decline and fall of Rome including economics, societal changes, Christianity, political and military problems, external factors, and the size and diversity of the empire.
  • Long-lasting Roman influences.
  • The important aspects of Christianity in the Roman Empire, including how it relates to other religions and its influence on Roman society.
  • The role of economics, politics, size/diversity, and societal changes in the decline and fall of Rome.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • Analyze textual evidence of primary and secondary sources.
  • Locate places on a map.
  • Identify the effects of religious beliefs and practices on societies.
  • Identify the cause and effect of economic changes on societies.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • The Roman Empire impacted and influenced later societies.
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
SS.AAS.8.7- Compare at least one modern aspect of culture to one ancient aspect.
Tags: Caligula, emperor, empire, Roman, Roman Republic, senator
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Author: Hannah Bradley
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