Silver and Blue

As the Ancient Rome arc comes to an end, this episode center's on the last of the conquered peoples, Gaul and Britannia. We’ll learn how the peoples resisted, how Rome finally conquered and what this meant to the existing ways of life as the people became part of the Roman Empire and under their rules of law and justice. Mentioned this Episode: Website: The Gallic Wars Website: The History of Poli...

The third episode in this arc will explore Rome’s conquest of Italy and how the policies, rules and integration of the peoples would set the standard of Rome’s equation for conquest of the Western world. Mentioned this Episode: Website: Lex Plautia Papiria Website: Lex Julia _________________________ Website: LCC Public Service Careers

The second episode in this arc will center on how Rome chose to use law and order to assimilate, integrate and conquer their way across Western Europe, and other geographic areas during its dominance. Mentioned this Episode: Britannica: First Punic War YouTube: History of Slavery in Ancient Rome _________________________ Website: LCC Public Service Careers

In this episode, we begin the long story of how Ancient Rome became such a powerhouse of the Ancient World. We will go over the origins of how Rome came to be, and how this resulted in the rise of their concepts of law, policing, and corrections. This episode is the starting point for an episode arc that will show how Ancient Rome and their concepts of law, order, policing and corrections dominate...

Episode Summary: In this episode, you will take a tour of Ancient Greece, where the Greeks didn’t invent justice, but did reshape it. Ancient Greece was responsible for transforming justice from a personal matter into a public institution and as a result began a process that laid foundations that still influence modern legal systems today. Learning about Ancient Greece from its beginnings in the N...

In this episode, you will learn about how Ancient Egypt governed through the Law of Ma’at - or natural order of things that was how society was balanced and the moral ideas that was the foundation of all law. With the Law of Ma’at, it instilled in the society the need for truth, acting justly, and acting fairly to all people. We’ll talk about the importance of Ma’at, how it influenced everything a...

In this episode, you will learn about how ancient civilizations, specifically Mesopotamia and Babylon, were the first to write down laws to govern the societies that had built up around them. We’ll talk about kings, codes, laws and police just to name a few. Mentioned This Episode: Website: Code of Hammurabi Website: Map of Ancient Mesopotamia _________________________ Website: LCC Public Service...