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| Question | Answer |
| 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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