5.3- Ancient Rome Part 3 and 4

Question 1

What does cauterising a wound involve?

Answer 1

Sealing the blood vessels with a red hot piece of metal

Question 2

What were legions led by?

Answer 2

Legatus

Question 3

How many centimetres are in a cubit?

Answer 3

46cm

Question 4

What did the punishment of bastinado involve?

Answer 4

The whole camp of soldiers beating a soldier for stealing or breaking the rules

Question 5

Wha was the main administrative centre in a Roman fort?

Answer 5

Principia

Question 6

What was a maniple?

Answer 6

A strategically organised fighting unit of the ancient roman army

Question 7

Who was the standard bearer of the Roman legion?

Answer 7

Aquilifier

Question 8

How many soldiers were in a century?

Answer 8

100

Question 9

When did the Roman army have control over Italy?

Answer 9

260 BC

Question 10

What were auxiliaries?

Answer 10

Soldiers who fought in the Roman army, who weren’t Roman

Question 11

What was the home of the fort commander called?

Answer 11

Praetorium

Question 12

What was the main road in the Roman forts called?

Answer 12

Via Praetoria

Question 13

What would a leader do if he thought his men were plotting against him?

Answer 13

Decimato

Question 14

How many soldiers could the biggest forts hold?

Answer 14

6000

Question 15

What weapons did romans use to conduct siege warfare?

Answer 15

Battering rams, catapults and carroballista

Question 16

What were principes?

Answer 16

Soldiers in the prime of their lives

Question 17

What was the festival in February called when people honoured their ancestors?

Answer 17

Parentalia

Question 18

Who was the Roman ferryman in the underworld?

Answer 18

Charon

Question 19

During Etruscan times what was the preferred method of dealing with dead bodies?

Answer 19

Cremation

Question 20

Where were people who couldn’t afford a tomb buried?

Answer 20

In a mass grave on the Esquilline Hill

Question 21

What influenced Roman views on death?

Answer 21

Greek mythology

Question 22

What was the name of the festival in February to honour the dead?

Answer 22

Lemuria