definitions

Question 1

barbari (barbarius)

Answer 1

barbarian, anyone who doesn’t speak Latin or Greek

Question 2

liberti (libertus)

Answer 2

freedmen (slaves that have been freed by their masters)

Question 3

servi (servus)

Answer 3

slaves

Question 4

ingenui (ingenus)

Answer 4

free born peoples

Question 5

what are the two classes of ingenui?

Answer 5

patricians (upper class, 1%) and plebeians (plebs, the other 99%

Question 6

praenomen

Answer 6

first name

Question 7

nomen / gentilicium

Answer 7

family name

Question 8

cognomen

Answer 8

nicknames or conquests, or to distinguish from other branches of the family

Question 9

what is augury?

Answer 9

studying the flight path of birds

Question 10

what is the pomerium?

Answer 10

the sacred boundary around a city, paved by the king using two white oxen

Question 11

what is a curia?

Answer 11

a central meeting hall, influenced by greek democracy

Question 12

what is a novus homo?

Answer 12

an equestrian who has sold his business to buy land so he could be a member of the Senatorial Order

Question 13

what is the palladium?

Answer 13

the amphora that Ascanius carried out of Troy

Question 14

what is a peculium?

Answer 14

the allowance a slave was owed

Question 15

what is latifundia / latifundium?

Answer 15

giant factory farms that produce usually one things (olives, grapes etc)

Question 16

what is manumissio?

Answer 16

the emancipation / freeing of a slave

Question 17

what is a pileus?

Answer 17

a conical hat freedmen would wear to show everyone his newfound freedom

Question 18

What is the lustrum?

Answer 18

a special ceremony performed by the the censor to mark the end of the census

Question 19

what is suovetaurilia?

Answer 19

a triple sacrifice of a boar (suus) a ram (ovis) and a bull (taurus)

Question 20

what are fasces?

Answer 20

axes that lictors carried - bundle of wooden rods with an ax head

Question 21

what is a vestibulum?

Answer 21

an entrance to a roman home, where you hang your cloaks, walking sticks or shopping bags. this room is long and thin. the length of the vestibule is determined by the length of the shops on either side.

Question 22

what is a taberna?

Answer 22

the shops on either side the vestibulum in roman homes

Question 23

what does Domus mean?

Answer 23

home

Question 24

what does insula mean?

Answer 24

apartment (plur. insulae)

Question 25

what is the name of the famously tall roman apartment building?

Answer 25

insula felicles

Question 26

what is an atrium?

Answer 26

big open area within a roman home, the central focus of the house. this is where religious shrines will be, where patrons will greet their clients

Question 27

what is an impluvium?

Answer 27

shallow water basin with a cistern underneath, located in the atrium under a hole in the ceiling (compluvium)

Question 28

what is a compluvium?

Answer 28

the hole in the roof to collect rain

Question 29

what is an Ala?

Answer 29

open room in the back of houses (2 of them: one on right side, one on left side)

Question 30

what is a culina?

Answer 30

kitchen (also housed the toilet for water consumption purposes)

Question 31

what is a tablinum?

Answer 31

the office, where the patron/man of the house would keep the records, money etc

Question 32

what is a triclinium?

Answer 32

dining room - Romans did not eat upright with knives and forks but rather on 3 long couches with no backs

Question 33

what is a hortus?

Answer 33

a WORKING garden out back- meaning they grew fruit trees, vegetables etc

Question 34

what is a fauces?

Answer 34

the narrow passage to the vestibulum, only exists in fancy houses, doesn't contain anything

Question 35

what is an andron?

Answer 35

the passageway into the hortus

Question 36

what is a viridarium?

Answer 36

a green garden- not for growing crops, but for enjoying nature (only rich people had these)

Question 37

what is a piscina?

Answer 37

a fish pond

Question 38

what is a peristylium?

Answer 38

a covered walkway around the viridarium so people could have shade

Question 39

what is a postium?

Answer 39

back door

Question 40

what is an exedra?

Answer 40

big open shaded area for when it's hot

Question 41

civitas optimo iure

Answer 41

"best" form of roman citizenship: full roman rights

Question 42

civitas sine suffragio

Answer 42

citizenship without the vote: must fulfill military and tax obligations but cannot run for public office, retain the rights of commericum and conubium

Question 43

civitas foederatae

Answer 43

allied states who have a treaty with Rome

Question 44

commercium

Answer 44

the right to free trade in any Roman city: would not have to pay taxes on products

Question 45

conubium

Answer 45

the right to intermarriage with anyone from any allied city or territory

Question 46

migratio

Answer 46

the right to move and become a citizen of any Roman city