Ancient Rome

Question 1

What is a pleblian?

Answer 1

A poor Roman citizen

Question 2

Name the three stages of Ancient Rome?

Answer 2

1. kingdom
2. republic
3. empire

Question 3

What is a domus?

Answer 3

A rich Romans house

Question 4

What was the peristylium?

Answer 4

A walled garden that usually contained flowers and the family’s favourite gods

Question 5

What were insulaes?

Answer 5

A poor Romans house. The equivalent to an apartment

Question 6

Name some of the terrible conditions in an insulae?

Answer 6

1. no running water
2. sewage dumped onto the streets
3. couldnt cook

Question 7

What was the via sacra?

Answer 7

A pathway that ran down the middle of the market. This is where the soldiers would run through after a victory

Question 8

How did the Romans eat?

Answer 8

They ate with there fingers and lay on sofas

Question 9

What type of food did they eat?

Answer 9

They are live parrot, camel toes and peacock etc.

Question 10

What types of slaves are there?

Answer 10

1. slaves that worked on land
2. galley slaves worked on boats
3. teachers and doctors
4. household slave
5. trained to be a gladiator

Question 11

How could a slave receive its freedom?

Answer 11

In a ceremony called a manumission. They were touched with a stick called a vindicta

Question 12

What was the Lundas?

Answer 12

This was the school Rich Roman children went to when they were 7

Question 13

What did they learn at the Lundas?

Answer 13

They learnt basic writing and arithmetic

Question 14

What was the grammaticus?

Answer 14

The school boys attended when they were 12

Question 15

What did they learn at grammaticus?

Answer 15

They learnt Greek, history, grammar, geometry and more arithmetic

Question 16

What does oration mean?

Answer 16

Making speeches in public. Boys in the grammaticus were taught how to public speak

Question 17

What did girls do after the Lundas?

Answer 17

They stayed at home with there mums and learnt domestic duties

Question 18

What was the caldarium?

Answer 18

This was the hottest room in the Roman baths.

Question 19

What was the tempidarium?

Answer 19

This was the warm room in the Roman baths

Question 20

What was the frigidarium?

Answer 20

The coldest room in the baths

Question 21

How many people could they hold on the circus maximus?

Answer 21

200,000

Question 22

Where were gladiator fights held?

Answer 22

Mainly the colosseum but sometimes in other arenas

Question 23

Who were gladiators?

Answer 23

Slaves, prisoners of war or paid professionals

Question 24

Name the types of gladiators?

Answer 24

1. samnite
2. retiarius
3. thacian

Question 25

Describe the samnite?

Answer 25

He was a heavyweight gladiator

He carried a long oblong shield and a sword and wore a helmet with a fin

Question 26

Describe the retiarius?

Answer 26

Most vulnerable fighter

Had only a shoulder guard and carried a net and a large dagger

Question 27

Describe the thacian?

Answer 27

Carries a small shield and a dagger

Upper legs were heavily protected

Question 28

What is a participant

Answer 28

A rich Roman citizen