Rome🛁🌋🏟️

Question 1

What town is one of the most important pieces of evidence from Ancient Rome?

Answer 1

Pompeii

Question 2

What volcano erupted all over Pompeii?

Answer 2

Mount Vesuvius

Question 3

Citizens

Answer 3

People who had rights under Roman law.

Question 4

Features of most Roman towns:

Answer 4

• Walls
• Paved streets
• Forum, large town square, centre of business, political activity and religious worship.
• temples
• aqueducts
• theatres
• monuments or triumphal arches
• public baths
• public toilets and drinking fountains
• amphitheatre

Question 5

What were walls used for?

Answer 5

Defence

Question 6

Forum

Answer 6

-A large town square
-Centre of business, political activity and religious worship.

Question 7

Aqueducts were used to…?

Answer 7

Bring fresh water to the towns.

Question 8

Theatres were used for..?

Answer 8

Plays and performances.

Question 9

Monuments or triumphal arches used to…?

Answer 9

Commemorate Romes history

Question 10

Public baths were used to..?

Answer 10

Bathe
Exercise
Meet friends
Business and trade

Question 11

Amphitheatre

Answer 11

Where gladiator games were held.

Question 12

What were the two classes in Rome called?

Answer 12

Patricians and Plebians

Question 13

Patricians were..?

Answer 13

The wealthy noble families who ruled Rome.

Question 14

Patricians had..?

Answer 14

• huge estates
• hundreds of slaves

Question 15

Patrician men wore a …?

Answer 15

Toga

Question 16

Patrician women wore a ..?

Answer 16

Stola

Question 17

A patrician house in a town was called a ?

Answer 17

Domes

Question 18

A patrician house in the countryside was called a ?

Answer 18

Villa

Question 19

Plebeians were..?

Answer 19

The poor who made up the majority of the population.

Question 20

Plebeians were given a …..?

Answer 20

Dole

Question 21

Dole

Answer 21

Payment of free grain.

Question 22

Why were plebeians given a dole?

Answer 22

So they would support the rule of the patricians

Question 23

Plebeian men wore a …?

Answer 23

Tunic

Question 24

Plebeian women wore a..?

Answer 24

Plain stola

Question 25

Plebeians that became wealthy through trade and business became known as..?

Answer 25

Equites

Question 26

Plebeians lived in..?

Answer 26

An apartment block called an insulae

Question 27

Rooms in a Patricians Domus

Answer 27

-atrium -impluvium -lararium -cubiculum -culina -triclinium -slave quarters -peristylium

Question 28

Atrium

Answer 28

Central courtyard

Question 29

Impluvium

Answer 29

A pool to collect rainwater

Question 30

Cubiculum

Answer 30

Bedroom

Question 31

Culina

Answer 31

Kitchen

Question 32

Triclinium

Answer 32

Dining-room

Question 33

Peristylium

Answer 33

Walled gardens

Question 34

Mosaics

Answer 34

Pictures made from small pieces of stone, glass or tile.

Question 35

Apartments at the top of an insulae were made from?

Answer 35

Wood

Question 36

Slaves worked on Romes public buildings such as..?

Answer 36

Aqueducts

Question 37

Manumission

Answer 37

When slaves were given their freedom after many years of service to their master.

Question 38

Greek slaves were…

Answer 38

Highly valued and treated well. Usually employed as doctors and teachers

Question 39

Conferratio

Answer 39

Wedding ceremony

Question 40

Three stages of a wealthy roman education

Answer 40

- Ludus - Grammaticus - Oratory

Question 41

Ludus

Answer 41

Age 7-12 Learned reading and writing

Question 42

Grammaticus

Answer 42

Age 12 Learned history, grammar, geometry and studied literature.

Question 43

Oratory

Answer 43

Age 16 Oratory- Art of public speaking Rhetor- teacher

Question 44

What were the 4 forms of entertainment in Rome?

Answer 44

- public baths - chariot racing (circus maximus) - theatre - amphitheaters (gladiators)

Question 45

Three rooms in the public baths

Answer 45

- tepidarium - caldarium - frigidarium

Question 46

Tepidarium

Answer 46

Medium heat room

Question 47

Frigidarium

Answer 47

Cold after bath

Question 48

Caldarium

Answer 48

Hot room, like a sauna

Question 49

Palaestra

Answer 49

Exercise yard in the public baths

Question 50

What was Romes chariot racing arena called?

Answer 50

Circus Maximus

Question 51

Roman theatre

Answer 51

- large semi-circular buildings - stone seats for audience - people separated by gender and social status - women and slaves seated at the back - usually tragedy and comedy plays -actors all male wearing masks

Question 52

Amphitheatres

Answer 52

-seating arranged by social status - gladiators mostly former soldiers who were sold as slaves - they held fights between people and exotic wild animals - colosseum could be flooded for mock sea battles

Question 53

Gladiators

Answer 53

Fought in oval arenas called amphitheatres

Question 54

Most famous amphitheatre

Answer 54

Colosseum

Question 55

Religion in Rome. Romans were….?

Answer 55

Polytheists

Question 56

Polytheist

Answer 56

To believe in many gods

Question 57

Monotheist

Answer 57

To believe in only one god

Question 58

What did Emperor Constantine do?

Answer 58

Lifted the ban on Christianity

Question 59

At the end of the fourth century Christianity became…?

Answer 59

The official religion of the Roman Empire.

Question 60

Architecture-Romans invented?

Answer 60

Concrete To make buildings more durable

Question 61

What was the language of the Roman Empire?

Answer 61

Latin

Question 62

4 Legacy’s of Rome

Answer 62

-Architecture -Christianity -Language -Calendar

Question 63

What was the traditional date of the founding of Rome by Romulus?

Answer 63

753 BC

Question 64

Lararium

Answer 64

Shrine to the family gods