Pompeii: Causes And Effects Of Mount Vesuvius

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“There are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means of volcanoes, those burning mountains that seem to discharge their materials from the lowest abysses of the earth.”(Oliver Goldsmith) This quote hits it right with what volcanoes cover up from you the remains of history as we know it. Some of the most interesting things from history are covered up by the ash of volcanoes. Its scary to me that a volcanoe can be just there peaceful minding its own business and then bamm!, the volcanoe randomly exsploeds and destroyes everything in its path. One of the most reconized volcanic eruption is from Mount Vesuvius covering pompii. This is where …show more content…

Now with the time period during this terrible event is 79AD in Naples Italy. It was during the rages of the Roman Empire area. The city that the eruption was famous for covering was Pompeii. This city was a resort city, very wealthy people came from all around to vist this very luxeruis place. According to the article “Pompeii: Portents of Disaster” it exsplains that there were signs of earthquaks and volcanic activy in 63AD.” There was damged already done to the city before the eruption even happened. That should of told the people that there is something very bad that is coming. Right before the quarthquak was going to happen there was lots of buldings going repair form the sismic activity from Mount Vesuvius. There a lot of people thought that the earthquaks were the gods fighting under the mountains that cause the sismic activy according to the article “Pompeii: Portents of Disaster.” To me I don’t now why the romains would think that, thus they were missing some very important thinking that should have been looked more into what was really going on at the time. Then again at the time there was not really people that could tell you if a volcanoe was going to erupt but nonetheless you should not think the best all thetime when there are qarthquaks happening, building are getting damaged, smoke rising from Mount

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