Wikijunior talk:Ancient Civilizations/Romans

I have a problem with the text concerning ancient Roman housing: "but normal houses were much smaller and regular-looking," By "normal" houses, do you mean that of the average citizen? What was "normal" in ancient Rome? And what is "regular-looking"? Regular to who? What's regular to me may not be "regular" to someone living in India. I would not consider this text comparable to any high school textbook we have in our schools. The writing is of poor quality. Sorry, but I would definitely discourage my students from using this information.
 * A little better? -- LV (Dark Mark) 21:13, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

What did they believe (Romans in Ancient Civilizations)
There are so many spelling and grammar errors in this section that I am appalled & vow never to let my students use a WikiText for research - ever! This is the problem when anyone can write anything on the web and call it valid information. I don't know if the facts here are correct because the person's writing is incomprehensible. Our students deserve better than this.


 * You are allowed to edit it and change it if it is bad. Anyone can edit! Enjoy. -- LV (Dark Mark) 21:15, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Correct Latin Pronoucation
Technically, Julius Caesar's name would be pronounced "You-lee-us Ki-sir" The "I" was pronounced as a "y" (later the y became "j" in the middle ages", and all "c" were prononced as hard, i.e. as "k"s, not like "ch" in teh current book.

Please change, or if someone would like to argue. :)

Zidel333 03:03, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Great job!
This is a great module. It seems complete and is easy to read and follow. Thanks for contributing this module to Wikibooks and Wikijunior. I think kids will find this very fun and interesting. Tannersf 03:20, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Image replacement
I just replaced the image for the geographic context of the Empire. The previous image was far too detailed (in my opinion) for the book's target audience: 8-12 year olds. It might appear to the reader that the three Prefectures other than Italy were not part the Empire, or cause some other confusion. The new image is a single color, and should be much easier to comprehend. Νεοπτόλεμος 01:19, 5 February 2008 (UTC)