What type of wine would they have drank during the 1st Century BC?
Really good question. Wine has been around for thousands of years back to the ancient times and was very common around the turn of the Millennium. This is why there are so many ancient rituals tied to wine, mostly red wine (resemblance to blood), in Christianity (Jesus turning water to wine) and Judaism drinking wine on holy holidays.
The technology was less sophisticated, but in terms of crushing grapes and fermenting the wine, the varieties are similar to what we still have today (though that would be very very aged). Wikipedia usually isn't a great source, but I found a fantastic page of Ancient Rome and Wine, which would be what dominated the Western world at the time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome_and_wine.
Year 42 BC was either a common year starting on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar (the sources differ, see leap year error for further information) and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Proleptic Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Plancus (or, less frequently, year 712 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 42 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
January – Publius Vatinius, governor of Illyricum, seized Dyrrachium and is forced to surrender his army (three legions) to Marcus Junius Brutus. Marcus Brutus begins to plunder the cities of Asia Minor, in order to obtain money and soldiers.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.
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