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Ancient Rome Flashcards

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What did a roman soldier used to protect itself

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A javelin
A short sword
A dagger
A shield with legions design

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What did a roman soldier wear

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Helmet 
Body armour
Belt showing position in army 
Woollen tunic 
Marching sandals with metal grips
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What is an empire

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Where one country controls several lands

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What is a senate

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The name given to the roman government

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Who were the patricians

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Rich roman

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Who were the plebeian s

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Poor roman

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What was a legion

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A group of soldiers within the army

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What was an auxilia

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A back up army

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Where did the patricians live

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Villas

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What was a atrium

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A hall open to the sky with pools fountains and flowers

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What are mosaics

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Pictures and designs made from tiny pieces of glass or tile

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What was a villa

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A large country house where patricians lived

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Where did plebeians live

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Insulaes

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What was an Insulaes

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Blocks of wooden flats

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What is oratory

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Public speaking

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What did the roman boys learn in school

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Reading 
writing 
arithmetics 
Latin
Oratory
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What was the dole

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The bread that the plebeians got from the government

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What did the roman men wear

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A toga with a tunic underneath

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What was a toga

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Like a sheet draped in graceful folds around the body

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What did the women wear after they got married

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Stola

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What was a stola

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Long woollen tuni

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What else did the roman women like to wear

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Make-up and jewellery. They liked to dye their hair red with Berries

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What did they do with there dead

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They were cremated and put on catacombs

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What were catacombs

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Underground graveyard

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What was their religion

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They believed in many different gods

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Name some gods

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Mars god of war
Neptune god of the sea
Jupiter god of all gods
Lares household gods

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What was a pantheon

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A temple to all the gods

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Give two sources that give us evidence about the ancient Roman Empire

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Pompeii and the collesium

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