Roman Keywords Flashcards
patrician
A rich person in roman society.Usually a land owner or member of senate.
Roman Empire
An empire that took up most of Europe ,North Africa and some of Asia that was led by the city of Rome
Plebian
A poor person in roman soceity.Usually a tenant farmer.
Domus
A patricians house in the countryside with many rooms E.g atrium,peristyle.
impluvium
A shallow pool in a .Usually found in a domus
Atrium
The hall in a Domus open to the sky
Peristyle
a walled garden usually found in a domus
Insulae
A plebeians home .A apartment block
thermopolia
Where the plebeians ate because they couldn’t cook in their houses because of wooden structure of their insulae,
Oratory
A subject boys learned in school.They learned how to speak publically in case they joined the senate.
Toga
The traditional roman dress
stola
What a women wore when she got married
dole
the bread that the government gave out to the poor people .Many people survived of this.
Lares
The household gods
catacombs
The place were they buried their dead
