Final Exam Review

Question 1

What is the Madaba map?

Answer 1

Part of the floor mosaic at the Saint George church. It is a map of the Middle East

Question 2

What is an agora?

Answer 2

A public open space used for assemblies and markets

Question 3

What is ad sanctos?

Answer 3

The custom of arranging to be buried in or beside a church

Question 4

What is apicius?

Answer 4

A collection of Roman cookery recipes

Question 5

What is a caupona?

Answer 5

Inn

Question 6

What is a census?

Answer 6

A type of registration that happens every 5 years

Question 7

What is a centurion?

Answer 7

The commander of a century

Question 8

What is conditum?

Answer 8

Something that is concealed or preserved

Question 9

What is cursus honorum?

Answer 9

The order of public offices held by aspiring politicians

Question 10

What is cursus publicus?

Answer 10

“The public way”, the Roman postal system.

Question 11

What is a deversorium?

Answer 11

Hotel

Question 12

What is a diploma?

Answer 12

A letter of recommendation/privilege/passage

Question 13

Who was Egeria?

Answer 13

A female advisor who would write letters to her “sisters”, traveled for 3 years

Question 14

What is Eleusis?

Answer 14

A city in Ancient Greece, famous mysteries of Eleusis

Question 15

What is ex voto?

Answer 15

A religious offering given in order to fulfill a vow

Question 16

What is a freedperson?

Answer 16

A former slave who bas been released from slavery, usually by legal means

Question 17

What is hecatomb?

Answer 17

A great public sacrifice, originally 100 oxen. it was an extensive loss of life for some cause

Question 18

What is hospitium?

Answer 18

Hospitality

Question 19

What is an itineraria?

Answer 19

Ancient Roman road map with cities, villages and other stops

Question 20

What is katagogion?

Answer 20

In hospitality, the main building where the visit found accomodations during their stay

Question 21

What is liquamen?

Answer 21

Fish sauce

Question 22

What is manumission?

Answer 22

Freeing of slaves

Question 23

What is peregrinus?

Answer 23

Subject of the empire who was not a Roman citizen

Question 24

What is the Peutinger Map?

Answer 24

An Ancient Roman road map showing the layout of the road network in the Roman Empire

Question 25

Who is Praefectus Castrorum?

Answer 25

“Camp perfect”. Third most senior commander of the roman army

Question 26

What is the Roman Forum?

Answer 26

The main centre of a Roman city, surrounded by ancient government buildings

Question 27

What is Romanitas?

Answer 27

The collection of political and cultural concepts and practices

Question 28

What is Servile Wars?

Answer 28

A series of 3 slave revolts against the roman republican led by Spartacus

Question 29

What is a taberna?

Answer 29

A single room covered by a barrel vault within great indoor markets. Had window above it to let light into a wooden attack for storage

Question 30

What is theoroi?

Answer 30

Sacred messengers sent out by the state

Question 31

What is thermopolium?

Answer 31

A cafe

Question 32

What is triclinium?

Answer 32

A formal dining room in Roman buildings, had 3 couches along the side

Question 33

What is a trireme?

Answer 33

A war galley with 3 rows of oars

Question 34

What is utopia?

Answer 34

An imagined palce or state of things in which everything is perfect

Question 35

What is aenatores?

Answer 35

Musicians also known as brass man

Question 36

Who was Helena?

Answer 36

She was the empress of the Roman Empire, also known as Saint Helena

Question 37

What is a stabulum?

Answer 37

A stable