Alexandria: I chose to start with this Wikipedia page because while on the class website I know noticed a RT in the Twitter Stream about some objects that had been recovered from ancient Alexandria. It said that part of the city had gone underwater, and I'd never heard about that so I decided to check it out. I had to read the ancient section of the main page.
365 Crete Earthquake: I was led to this page because I found the reason some of those artifacts were underwater was because of a tsunami that devastated the city in 365. It was caused by an earthquake whose epicenter is estimated to be Crete.
Ammianus Marcellinus: I got to this page about a Roman soldier and historian because he wrote a detailed passage about the earthquake/tsunami above. His work is titled Res Gestae and while he wrote a detailed history of Rome from 96-378, only the 353-378 sections survived over the years.
Arian controversy: Finally, I got here because the previous article talked about how Marcellinus was not a Christian but tolerated them. The controversy was over whether Jesus was fully man, fully God, or both. The trinitarian view won out, and is still supported by most Christians today.
