Pompeii Research Paper

The Lost City of Pompeii
Pompeii, a city that was thriving and growing constantly. A city so beautiful and magnificent, and was home for thousands of people. A city that was turned into nothing within hours after a natural disaster.

Pompeii is a ancient city that has been around for thousands of years. It has been home for many cultures, but mainly the Romans (Simon,2). The Romans was living in Pompeii at the time of the volcano erupting, but before the eruption that killed thousands of people there was a huge earthquake that badly damaged the city (Simon,3). The earthquake happened in 62CE, which was 17 years before Vesuvius would erupt. The earthquake killed many people, but it is unknown exactly how many. The Romans did not believe in …show more content…
After the earthquake the city started to rebuild itself, but not in enough time until the volcano would completely wipe out the entire city. In 79 CE Mount Vesuvius would rain down terror on Pompeii and many cities around. There was no word for “volcano” in 79 CE, so the people of Pompeii were completely clueless (HS,2). When Vesuvius first erupted the people actually thought that the gods were angry at them. So instead of fleeing from the city they went into their homes and started to pray. The people that did not flee to the shelter of their homes ran to the edge of the beach in order to get help. The volcano had not erupted for thousands of years before this incident, so the pressure under all the rock had built up to the hundred of thousands of tons of pressure. So when it erupted, it shot hot ash up 220 miles in the sky. The wind usually blow from the beach which was east, but not today. On this day the wind was blowing from the west which …show more content…
He witnessed eruption, and once he received a SOS from Pompeii he ordered all of his ships to prepare to set sail for the city in danger. He had a younger nephew that love nature just as heated, the Pliney refused to let him come because it was a risky Mission. I needed not exactly know what was going on, because he is never seen a volcano Europe before or has anyone else. The Naval immediately set sail into the darkness (HS,6). Younger Pliny observed this whole occurrence from a distance and recorded what he witnessed. Plan is rescue mission was underway around 5 PM, he passed a town that was even closer to the danger then Pompeii but the city was not under smoke. He headed towards the fallout zone, which was where the ash and rock that was launched into the air fall from the sky. The fallout zone was directly over Pompeii at this time Kona and once the ships was in the fall of zone visibility was very low and he knew that they were in trouble. So he ordered to go to the light, but the wind push them down the coast towards the town of Stabeii. They found shelter there and Pliney met a friend that helped him and actually bathed him(Simon,3). Around this time a nearby town by the name of “Hercules” was wiped out by a huge wave of hot ash and rock. The wave is known as a pyroclastic surge. The wave is five times hotter than boiling water and wipes out anything in its path. Most of the people in the city had

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