Ancient Rome

Question 1

Name 3 sources on Ancient Rome

Answer 1

1. Written sources {Cicero &and Pliny}
2. Archaeological evidence
3. Remains of Pompeii and Herculanium

Question 2

What did Roman men wear?

Answer 2

• Knee length tunics
• Togas (special occasions)
• Leather sandles

Question 3

What does ‘patrician’ mean?

Answer 3

If you were a Roman patrician it would mean that you are a wealthy Roman man

Question 4

What does ‘plebian’ mean?

Answer 4

If you are a plebian Roman you would be a more middle class Roman. Not as rich as the patricians but still not poor

Question 5

What did patrician men work as?

Answer 5

They did very little work though some served as army generals, senators or orators

Question 6

What was the ‘dole’?

Answer 6

This was free grain you received from the government if you were unemployed

Question 7

What did plebian men & women work as?

Answer 7

They worked as shopkeepers, jewellers, fishermen, potters, traders, carpenters, bakers and soldiers

Question 8

What rights did Roman women have and not have?

Answer 8

Roman women couldn’t become citizens & couldn’t vote however they could run their own business and own their own property

Question 9

What did patrician women do?

Answer 9

Nothing, slaves did everything for them

Question 10

What did women wear and what did they look like?

Answer 10

They wore

• Stolas (long woolen tunics)
• Pallas (cloaks)
• Leather sandles
• Lot of jewellery
• Loved wearing makeup and having different hairstyles

Question 11

What did Roman girls play with?

Answer 11

They played with dolls made of wood or wax

Question 12

What did Roman boys play with?

Answer 12

They played with wooden swords and toy soldiers

Question 13

Where and when did patrician children attend school?

Answer 13

They attended school at a ludus from 7-12

Question 14

Who were the children taught by?

Answer 14

Greek slaves

Question 15

What did Patrician boys do after the finished the ludus?

Answer 15

They attended a grammar school from 12-16 and here they studied Greek, History, Geography, Maths, Oratory and the great writers of Greece and Rome (e.g. Homer, Plato, Socrates and Aristotle)

Question 16

When could Romans marry?

Answer 16

Girls -> 12

Boys -> 14

Question 17

What ritual did girls do before their wedding?

Answer 17

The night before their wedding they would return their bulla to their father and give away all their toys

Question 18

What did slaves do?

Answer 18

They cooked, cleaned, bathed farmed and did manual labor for their masters

Question 19

What was a domus?

Answer 19

It was a one story detatched house that patricians lived in

Question 20

What was an atrium?

Answer 20

A large open area in the centre of a domus with no roof or ceiling

Question 21

What is an impluvium

Answer 21

A small pool that collected rainwater

Question 22

What was the cubiculum?

Answer 22

The bedroom

Question 23

What was the culina?

Answer 23

The kitchen

Question 24

What was the triclinium?

Answer 24

Dining room

Question 25

What was in the peristylum

Answer 25

Pillars and columns, herbs and flowers

Question 26

Insulae

Answer 26

Block of flats that plebeians lived in

Question 27

What were thermoplae

Answer 27

Roman takeaways

Question 28

What did Romans have for lunch

Answer 28

Bread, salad, fruit and nuts

Question 29

Cena

Answer 29

Dinner-> 3 courses

Question 30

What would Romans eat for their main course of cena

Answer 30

Meat cooked in rich or spicy sauce. The meat would have been pork, bores head, ostrich, lobster or chicken

Question 31

Why did the Romans go to the baths

Answer 31

To wash socialise and excersise

Question 32

What would you do at the bath

Answer 32

1) slave massaged you with oil and scraped it off with a strigil
2) tepidarium (warm room)
3) caldrium (like a sauna)
4) frigidarium for a swim (cold room)

Question 33

Where was chariot racing held

Answer 33

In an arena called a circus eg circus maximus in Rome

Question 34

Where did gladiators fight

Answer 34

In ampitheatres eg coloseum in Rome

Question 35

Father of the gods

Answer 35

Jupiter

Question 36

Godess of women and the home

Answer 36

Juno

Question 37

Godess of love

Answer 37

Venus

Question 38

God of war

Answer 38

Mars

Question 39

Goddess of household and hearth

Answer 39

Vesta

Question 40

Who were the vestal virgins

Answer 40

6 patrician women who tended the sacred fire in vestas temple

Question 41

When did Christianity become the official religion of Rome

Answer 41

306AD

Question 42

Describe the funeral of an important Roman

Answer 42

• They were accompanied by musicians, dancers and professional mourners
• Before cremation, coins were placed on the eyes
• Romans believed the person would have to pay the ferryman to be brought across the River Sticks into the afterlife

Question 43

What was the role of the Roman Army?

Answer 43

• Gained new territory

* Protected the empire

Question 44

The Roman army was divided into…

Answer 44

Legions

Question 45

How many men were in a legion?

Answer 45

4000

Question 46

Legions were split into…

Answer 46

Centuries

Question 47

How many men were there in a century?

Answer 47

100

Question 48

What were the Roman soldiers’ armor made from?

Answer 48

Small metal plates sewn onto a leather tunic

Question 49

What weapons did the Roman soldiers carry?

Answer 49

Sword, dagger, spear and shield

Question 50

What are the achievements of Ancient Rome?

Answer 50

i) Still use Roman alphabet and numerals
ii) Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian are Romance languages because they are modern versions of Latin
iii) Use the Roman Calendar
iv) Inspired our architecture