Ancient Rome❌

Question 1

What was the circus maxiums?

Answer 1

The largest stadium in Ancient Rome

Question 2

How many people could the circus maxiums hold?

Answer 2

250000

Question 3

What was the colosseum?

Answer 3

A place where you could watch human and animal fights and would be flooded for boat fights

Question 4

How many people could the Colosseum hold?

Answer 4

25000

Question 5

When was the Colosseum built?

Answer 5

172CE

Question 6

What were the baths of Caracalla?

Answer 6

They were public baths

Question 7

When were the baths of Caracalla built?

Answer 7

216AD

Question 8

What were on the walls of the baths?

Answer 8

Mosaics which symbolised wealth even though it wasn’t very expensive so the poor could go

Question 9

How were the baths heated up?

Answer 9

By boilers which were heated by furnaces

Question 10

What were Patricans?

Answer 10

They were wealthy noble families who ruled Rome

Question 11

What were plebeians?

Answer 11

Poor people of rome

Question 12

What did the patricians severe in?

Answer 12

They served in senate and were military generals governors of Romes provinces

Question 13

What did patrician men wear?

Answer 13

They wore a Tonga (a long white robe draped over the shoulders and down to their feet)

Question 14

What did patrician woman wear?

Answer 14

They wore a stola (a long dress)

Question 15

Where did patricans live?

Answer 15

They lived in a town called a domus or a villa if they live in the countryside

Question 16

Where did the plebeians live?

Answer 16

They lived in a plebeian insula

Question 17

Where did the poorest plebeians live?

Answer 17

They lived at the top of the plebeian insula and often 1 family would have to share a single room

Question 18

What was life like living in a plebeian insula?

Answer 18

There was no running water, rubbish was thrown on to the streets. There was constant danger of fire from cooking and could easily spread through the wooden structures

Question 19

How may slaves were there in Rome?

Answer 19

3000000

Question 20

What were the different sources that slaves came from?

Answer 20

Any prisoners of war,children of slaves,people captured by pirates or bandits while travelling were often sold as slaves and parents in debt sometimes sold their own children into slavery

Question 21

What age were woman normally getting married at?

Answer 21

14 or 15

Question 22

Where was the wedding ceremony often held?

Answer 22

The brides house

Question 23

What was a wife expected to do for her husband?

Answer 23

Make his clothes,supervise slaves and oversee the rearing of her children

Question 24

What happend to women at childbirth?

Answer 24

They died so men often married several times and a girl could easily end up marrying a man her fathers age