Malaria and the Visigoths

Every one knows that Rome was one of the most powerful Empire in the ancient world and that it eventually fell... But! Do you you know how it fell? No, it wasn't hit a meteor or destroyed by a natural disaster but was attacked by barbarians, like Attila the Hun and the Visigoths. The Romans decided that Rome was too big to rule at one time so they split it in half, the East and the West. So the Huns attacked the East and the Visigoths attacked the West. Soon the Visigoths won the West and the leader made his 6 year old son the new emperor. He also game his son a new name, Romulus Augustus. Romulus for the first king of Rome and Augustus for the most popular emperor of Rome. The people of Rome felt embarrassed and called the boy "Momylius" which means Little Disgrace. The East part of Rome never was captured or destroyed, it just had some crazy leaders and was then known as the Byzantines. I never would have thought that Rome would just fall like that.

Did you know that malaria kills up to three million people a year? Today we read The Little House on the Prairie book and the family got sick with malaria. Malaria is caused by mosquitoes that spread the disease. One of the ways to avoid malaria is to sleep with a bug net over you but luckily it is not that common in the U.S only in Africa and South America. The U.S is trying to help people with Malaria. I'm just glad it isn't in the U.S.