The first two years of Shakespeare's education came from the most elementary level of schooling called petty school. You learned to read and write in English and math, but the main thing was to try and get you to grammar school. Most petty schools where run by a young wife. The main thing that...

William Shakespeare was the greatest playwright the world has ever known. Shakespeare was born on St. George's Day in the spring of 1564 in Stratford. William was raised in a very disciplined home and was educated in the Elizabethan School where the children were expected to be able to speak the l...

Gaius Octavius, the great-nephew of Julius Caesar, was born in Rome on the 23rd of September, 63 BC (Southern 1). After Julius Caesar's death on the Ides of March in 44 BC, a struggle for power in Rome ensued, even though 18 year old Octavian was the heir. Marc Antony, a good friend of J...

Geographical and living habits: In 390 BC Gallic Tribes crossed the Alps swept down through Italy and sacked and burnt Rome. The Gauls left the city but for a time they held the northern part of the Italian peninsula. The region south of the Alps became known to the Romans as Cisalpine Gaul or Ga...