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The Relationship Between Riots That Occured In Ancient Rome

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This essay, "Cry 'Havoc '" described the relationship between riots that occured in ancient Rome and the ones that happen today. The narratives in which these riots were told were successfully mentioned as well. Simmilaries and differences were distinguished for the causes of the riots from ancient Rome and today. Riots that occured in Rome, London, and Baltimore are the ones mentioned the most. Simmilarities consisited of rising prices of homes, political tensions, or the damage of public and private property. The Baltimore riots were uniquly caused by racism, which was very rare in Rome. Rome had riots that were caused by food shortages, which isn 't relatable to cities in the United States. More differences came apparent by the way these

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