A brief summary of the three Punic Wars of the Roman Empire will be presented to the students. Segments of this summary will then be assigned to groups of students. The information from these segments will be presented as a mosaic, a common art form of the early Roman Culture. Students will present their mosaics to the class, in a chronological order, while narrating its meaning. Students will identify color, shape and texture necessary to produce a mosaic.
Students create original artwork based on a historical scene.
The mosaic will create a visual representation of the historical scene from the Punic Wars. Liberati The Punic Wars of the early Roman Empire was an important event in the development in the Roman civilization. The Romans now had control over the Mediterranean trade routes and occupied land in Spain and France. If it were not for these wars, the extent of the Roman Empire would have been isolated to the Italian peninsula. The visual sensation dependent on the reflection or absorption of light from a given surface.