2. ANCIENT ROME

Frage	Antworten
Towns buried under volcanic ash and lava from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius	Pompeii and Herculaneum
Wrote the only primary source available on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius	Pliny the Younger
A rich Roman	Patrician
A poor Roman	Plebeian
The house of a rich Roman	Domus
Patterns made of small pieces of stone, glass or pottery stuck into wet plaster	Mosaics
Age girls were allowed to marry	12
The main meal of the day for rich Romans. It had three courses	Cena
A room where Romans could deliberatley get sick to make more room for food	Vomitorium
Apartment blocks where plebeians lived. They had shops on the ground floor	Insulae
Take away shops which sold hot food	Thermopolia
Free supply of grain given to poor Romans	Dole
Used by school children to learn to read and write	Wax tablets
Became dictator of Rome in 49 BC	Julius Caesar
'Veni, Vidi, Vici'	'I came, I saw, I conquered'
Slave who led a rebellion against Rome	Spartacus
Roman code of law	The Twelve Tables
Three weapons used by a Roman soldier	Sword, knife, javelin
The most famous doctor from Roman times	Galen
If these were in correct proportion in the body, a person would be healthy	The four humours
Cure for sore eyes	Boiled liver
Where gladiator contests were held	Amphitheatres
Amphitheatre in Rome that could hold 50,000 spectators	Colosseum
Gladiators sometimes fought against animals such as...	Bulls, bears and lions
Hippodrome in Rome that could hold 250,000 people	Circus Maximus
Plays were held in...	Open-air theatres
Baths contained three types of bathing room	Tepidarium, caldarium and frigidarium
Used with oil to scrape dead skin off the body	Strigil
God of War	Mars
Goddess of Love	Venus
A coin was placed in the mouth of a dead person to pay the...	Ferryman
Made Christianity the state religion at the end of the fourth century	Emperor Constantine
Three modern European cities founded by the Romans	London, Paris and Cologne
Three features of Roman architecture	Domes, thick columns and rounded arches
Language spoken by Romans that became the basis of many modern European languages e.g. French	Latin

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