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Pompeii Map 1 and Map 2
Haiti Map 1 and Map 2
Haiti Map 1 and Map 2
- Highlight the country on your world map
- Place a dot on Pompeii and Port au Prince
- Compare the 2 locations
Pompeii
Source #1: Ancient Pompeii's Society & Social Structure (read-aloud version)
Source #2: Ancient Roman Wine
Source #3: Chaos and Death in Pompeii video
Source #4: Pompeiian Lifestyle video
Source #5: The Long, Deathly Silence Pompeii Discovery.com article
Source #6: Pompeii's Eyewitness: A Web Documentary Pliny Letters video
Source #7: Pompeii: Portents of Disaster BBC History article. (read-aloud version)
"The people of Pompeii were quite unprepared for the eruption of Vesuvius - getting on with their busy lives, in total ignorance of what was to come. The signs of impending disaster, though, were there - why did no-one pick up on them?"
Source #2: Ancient Roman Wine
Source #3: Chaos and Death in Pompeii video
Source #4: Pompeiian Lifestyle video
Source #5: The Long, Deathly Silence Pompeii Discovery.com article
Source #6: Pompeii's Eyewitness: A Web Documentary Pliny Letters video
Source #7: Pompeii: Portents of Disaster BBC History article. (read-aloud version)
"The people of Pompeii were quite unprepared for the eruption of Vesuvius - getting on with their busy lives, in total ignorance of what was to come. The signs of impending disaster, though, were there - why did no-one pick up on them?"
Haiti
Source #8: Culturegrams - Haiti
Source #9: Haiti Earthquake Facts & Figures
Source #10: What Caused the Quake? Washington Post article
Source #11: Haiti's Fault Lines video
Source #12: Damage in Port au Prince video
Source #13: National Geographic Daily News - Haiti Earth "Strange," Strongest in 200 Years
Source #14: Haiti to Improve Quake Preparedness Nature article (read-aloud version)
Source #15: Years After Haiti Quake, Safe Housing is a Dream for Many New York Times article (read-aloud version)
Source #16: Political Cartoon - Haiti Reconstruction