Ancient Rome Flashcards
What is a domus
A large house in a city usually inhabited by patricians or generals in the army, landowners and farmers patrons of the arts,lawmakers
What’s an insula
Small Apartment blocks with shops called tabernae, usually( bakeries)on the bottom, inhibited by plebeians (freed slaves,entertainers builders and labourers shopkeepers.)the higher up you were the less the rent so the poorer, risk of dying because of the ovens.
Name the rooms in a domus
Atrium=like a large hall
Colium= bedroom just for sleeping
Triclium=dining room,
Vomitarium= were they Luke’s up their food
Cubiculum (sitting room)
Peristylum= walled garden
Larium= like a mosque were they pray
Insulates had no running water or cooking facility why?
Because they didn’t have another money for cooking facilities,fountains were placed in neighbourhoods
No private bathrooms why?
They used public latrines they were large rooms with benches that had holes in them
What is a source
Is something that gives us information or evidence about the past
What’s a primary and secondary source
Secondary:second hand information may not be necessarily accurate
Primary :first hand information from the time being studied
What is pre history
We use the word prehistory to speak about the period of time before writing was used we rely on archaeology for evidence from this period of time
What are examples of written sources?
Documents newspapers textbook emails
What are examples of visual sources?
Photographs, videos paintings, cartoons
What are examples of aural. Sources.
Sounds of the past
What is a few examples of oral sources?
Interviews and recordings
What’s an example of touch sources?
Art buildings, monuments and models
What is crosschecking?
Crosschecking is when more than one source is used to make sure the information is correct
What is an archive?
An archive is a place that catalogues and stories a collection of written and other sources. An example of an archive in Ireland is the national archives of Ireland in Dublin.
What are a few examples of Artifacts
Diaries letters, emails interview, speeches and posters
What are a few examples of secondary sources
TV film radio documentaries, podcast websites, history books, biographies handling boxes and movies
What must historians be careful of when using sources
Accuracy, bias exaggeration, propaganda (always bake eggs properly)
What is chronology?
When historians find out information about the past they must put events into sequence in which they happened
What is reinterpreting?
Reinterpreting history when you see it in a new or different light an example is the Titanic in 1912
What is archaeology?
Archaeology is the study of the remains left by people in the past
What is excavation?
When archaeologist dig up the ground in search of our facts or ruins from the past
What are ways archaeologists find sites?
An area of photograph ruins of the building rescue archaeology research, archaeology, accidental,
How bodies or artefacts can be preserved
Extreme heat of deserts when buried airtight Volcanic ash all of which can preserved objects
What are test trenches?
A sample whole dog to see if there is anything of interest present and judge whether it is worth excavating the whole site
What does removing topsoil do?
Sees whether it is worth excavating, they remove the most recently layer of soil
What is a grid system?
Is it used to identify where the artefact is found?
What are some tools archaeologists to use?
Diggers squares, shovels trials brushes saves
What are a few methods of dating objects?
Radiocarbon dating geophysical surveying and pollen analysis and stratigraphy
What is radiocarbon dating?
All living things contain carbon 14 when they are alive after death the level of carbon 14 once living begins to drop at a steady rate the older you have been dead for the less carbon 14 contains this is called carbon 14 dating
What is a geophysical survey?
Is your physical survey is like an x-ray if there are any artefacts under the ground they make a geographical survey so they can find them without making a huge excavation
What is pollen analysis?
The study of pollen remains to find what was growing during the particular time. Archaeologists have records of when certain pollen was common if they find pollen when excavating they can match it to the correct time period
What is geography?
The method of sography is used to date artefacts deep in the ground the deeper there are the elder there are every years are fried by the dirt soil and end up being buried many metres deep
3D what is 3-D reconstruction?
Reconstruction is when he use computer modelling and then then try to reconstruct part of the body if most of the school is fine for example a present space can be reconstructed based on their school structure
What is DNA testing?
Archaeologist sometimes find bodies while excavating sites do you know? Testing can tell us about the origins and authenticity of the prison where they came from and who the people were.
What is a Dentrocronology?
Don’t you technology also called dating is a method of dating that uses the unique growth pattern of tree rings as a guide each ring is one year of growth
What is conservation?
Conservation is when historic objects are protected and preserved so they don’t decay historic objects can be displayed the museums Heritage sites some objects can also be stored in libraries example the book of Kells and Trinity College Dublin
How do we preserve historical buildings?
We preserve historical buildings like the GRO in O’Connell Street are looked after and restored so they’ll stay in good condition
What is a heritage site?
There a place where they re-create a time in history
