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What was the term for balls filled with hair, feather, or air?

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Folles

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What was the term for a game of catch?

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Trigon

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What was the term for rugby or football?

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Harpastum

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What was the term for chess?

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latrunculi

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What was the term for backgammon?

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Duodecem scripta

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What was the term for checkers?

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Calculi

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What was the term for a game similar to Italian mora?

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Micatio

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What was the term for knucklebones?

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Tali

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What was the term for a four-sided dice that lacked the numbers 2 and 5?

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Tesserae

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What was the term for the dice box which the dice were thrown?

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Fritillus

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What was the term for the highest throw (All different numbers)?

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Venus

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What was the term for the middle throw (Had a 6 and three other numbers)?

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Senio

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What was the term for the lowest throw (All the same number)?

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Vulture

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What was the term for the lowest of the Vultures throws (Only ones)?

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Dogs

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What was the term for a private game?

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Munera

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What was the term for public games?

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Ludi

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What was the term for dramatic performances in a theater?

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Ludi scaenici

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What was the term for a mime?

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Mimus, -i, m.

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What was the term for pantomimie?

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Pantomimus, -i, m.

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What was the term for comedies?

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Comoediae

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What was the term for tragedies?

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Tragaediae

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What was the term for the manager in producing a play?

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Dominus gregis

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What was the term for a troupe of inferior actors?

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Grex

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What was the term for the props necessary for a play?

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Ornamenta

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What was the term for the front line of the stage?
Proscaenium
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What was the term for the stage for the actor, located behind the front line?
Scaena
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What was the term for the spectators?
Cavea
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What was the term for the semicircular passage in the middle on the audience?
Praecinctio
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What was the term for groups of rows?
Meniana
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What was the term for the awnings that protected from rain and sun?
Vela
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What was the term for the Roman circus?
Circus
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What was the term for chariot races?
Ludi circenses
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What was the term for chariot companies or factions?
Factiones
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What was the term for red
Russata
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What was the term for white?
Albata
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What was the term for blue?
Veneta
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What was the term for green?
Prasina
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What was the term for purple?
Purpurea
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What was the term for gold?
Aurea
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Who added the colors purple and gold the the racing factions?
Domitian
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What was the term for the starting gates?
Porta pompae
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What was the term for the staring gates, this word also ment prison?
Carceres
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What was the term for the ending gate?
Porta triumphalis
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What was the term for the exterior part of the building composed of towers and barriers?
Oppidum
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What was the term for the backbone or center part of the circus?
Spinae
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What was the term for the pillars or turning posts?
Metae
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What were the instruments used to count laps, meaning "eggs and dolphins"?
Ova at delphini
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What was the term for the marble platform used by magistrates?
Podium
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What was the term for the chariotdriver?
Auriga / agitator
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What was the term for the circus procession for magistrates?
Pompa circensis
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What was the term for beast hunts?
Venationes
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What was the term for the mock battle among kids?
Ludus Troiae
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What was the term for the Flavian Ampitheater?
Colosseum
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What year was the Colosseum opened?
80 AD
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What was the term for gladiator fights?
Munera gladiatoria
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What was the term for the special food for the gladiators?
Sagina gladiatorial
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What was the term for the wooden training sword given to gladiators when they retire?
Rudis
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What was the term for the banks of rows?
Caveae
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What was the term for the first five rows?
Infima / ima cavea
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What was the term for the next twelve rows?
Media cavea
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What was the term for the highest 18 rows?
Summa cavea
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What was the term for the narrow passage for carrying the dead?
Porta Libitinensis
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What was the term for the seat of honor for members of the city council?
Bisellia
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What was the term for the two or three rows of parble thrones?
Podium
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What was the term for the 14 rows for euestrians?
Maenianum 1
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What was the term for the seating for ordinary citizens?
Maenianum 2
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What was the term for the seating for the lower classes, foreigners, and slaves?
Maenianum 3
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Who used the upper gallery above maenianum 3?
Women
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What was the term for gladiators?
Gladiatorii
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Which Gladiator fought with a net and trident?
Retiarius
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Which Gladiator fought blindfolded?
Andabata
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Which Gladiator had a fish crested helmet?
Murmillo
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Which Gladiator fought in a chariot?
Essedarius
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Which Gladiator fought with wild animals?
Bestiarius
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Which Gladiator was a rookie?
Tiro
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Which Gladiator fought with two daggers?
Dimachaerus
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Which Gladiator fought with a lasso?
Loqueator
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Which Gladiator fought as a volunteer?
Actoratus
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Which Gladiator fought with a short shield and had greaves on both legs?
Thrax
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Which Gladiator fought with thick sleeves on his right arm, had greaves on his left leg, and had a visored helmet?
Samnite
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What was the term for a long sheild?
Scutum
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Which gladiator was like the Samnites but more heavily armored and often pinned against the Thrax?
Hoplomachi
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Which gladiator was like the Samnites but lightly armored, and often pinned against the retiarii?
Secutores
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Who was the highest ranking gladiator, title meaning "first sword"?
Palus primus
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Who was the second highest ranking gladiator, title meaning "second sword"?
Palus secundus
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What was the term for a spared gladiator?
Missus
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What was the term for a gladiator trainer?
Lanista
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What was the term for the banquet for gladiators the day before a show?
Cena libera
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What was the term for the sham combat with blunt weapons that began the show?
Prolusio
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What was the white-chalked line that was the finish line in the Circus Maximus?
Calx

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