Ancient RomeBAD ONE

Question 0

By AD120 what was added to the Roman Empire and what was the population

Answer 0

Western Europe and North Africa

Population - 50 million

Question 1

What was the Roman Empire ?

Answer 1

Roman started of as small villages in 750Bc. People who lived there were called Latins. The villages came together to form the city of Rome. It controlled Italy and the land around the Mediterranean Sea

Question 2

How do we know about the Romans

Answer 2

Roman started of as small villages in 750Bc. People who lived there were called Latins. The villages came together to form the city of Rome. It controlled Italy and the land around the Mediterranean Sea

Question 3

Pompeii and Herculaneum

Answer 3

Those city’s were built beside Mt.Vesuvius that was dormant.on a sunny august day 79AD it erupted. Most ppl survived the first day but not the second because gas and ash pour from the volcano. Thousands of ppl died. For 1500 years the city was hidden. In 700 AD it was discovered by archaeologists.

Question 4

Who ruled the empire.

Answer 4

The republic did. People could chose people to be the government and elected to the senate.

Question 5

Name the two types or Romans and who were not citizens.

Answer 5

Patrician (rich roman) and plebeian (poor roman). Woman and slaves weren’t citizens

Question 6

Slaves

Answer 6

Some slaves were criminals or foreigners that Romans took when they conquered land. Slaves has no rights,didn’t get payed, they fought as gladiators and played in chariot races, some slaves were educated so they worked as teachers and doctors.

Question 7

How did the Romans control their empire

Answer 7

The real rulers were the Soldiers. They marched around 30km every day. They were paid and allowed to sell slaves they captured.the army was divided into legions. Each legion had 5k soldiers and there were 30 legions. The soldiers had to serve for 20 years and you had to be a citizen which meant many were volunteers. They could also serve in the back up army called the AUXILIA, they served for 25 years

Question 8

What did Romans do to their empire

Answer 8

Divide them in provinces

Question 9

Provinces

Answer 9

They were run by governors who payed taxes and sent grain to Rome. Britain became a roman province in AD40.

Question 10

What did roman Soldiers wear

Answer 10

Helmet,woollen tunic,body armour,belt(showing army position),shield (with different design for each legion),javelin,short sword,marching sandals and dagger

Question 11

How did Rome become an empire ?

Answer 11

The Romans loved their army generals and they sometimes became powerful. Julius Caesar was one who lived in AD 50. He was generous to the poor,brought in fair taxes. He was so popular he ruled Rome without the senate. Caesar was killed because of how jealous the other governors were. His adopted son became first emperor of Rome in 27 BC. This meant the senate was no longer and he was called emperor Augustus and after that the Roman Empire was ruled by an emperor.

Question 12

What was the streets in Rome like.

Answer 12

The were lined with houses,blocks of flats,shops and work shops. People threw there rubbish on the floors so they were filthy.stepping stones were on the street so people wouldn’t get their feet dirty

Question 13

Where did the patricians live

Answer 13

A villa. In the town it’s called a domus.

Question 14

What was in a villa

Answer 14

Atrium,walled garden,impluvium ( shallow pool),slave quarters and front room.

Question 15

Where did a plebeian live ? An describe

Answer 15

An insulae. Usually 4/5 storeys high with shops at street level. The higher the flat the cheaper. Piped Water was only supplied to ground floor, so you would have to carry water up the stairs. People only used their flats to sleep because it was made of cheap wood and fires were common. No indoor toilets, they used public toilets or a pot and emptied the pot out the street and they ate at shops called THERMOPOLIA

Question 16

How was roman family organised

Answer 16

The father was the head. He had power over everyone. Men often best their wives and children. He could sell them to slavery and men picked if the baby would live or die when born.

Question 17

Women and children

Answer 17

Children had to obey parents at all time. The father arranged the marriage for all his kids. Roman women could not be a citizen or vote. But they could own property. The poor women ran shops and worked in trade and craft.women could be hairdresser and maybe gladiators some doctor but mostly men.

Question 18

How were Romans educated

Answer 18

Most children from poor families didn’t got to school but still learned to read/write. Boys from rich families maybe Be reached by an educated slave.others went to school, they studied reading writing and arithmetic. At 12/13 boys learned about Greek and Latin writers. They practised oratory too.

Question 19

Girls

Answer 19

They married young at their early teens. Some had tutors to teach them Greek literature and how to play an instrument. Mothers taught how to mange household and sew.

Question 20

What did they eat

Answer 20

A patrician for breakfast ate bread dipped in wine with olive cheese or raisins. For lunch they would have cold food like bread or salads. Wine was often mixed with water as the usual drink.
For the cena (main meal) they would have three courses
(1).savoury dishes (oysters)
(2).roast or boiled meat covered in a spicy sauce
(3). Pastries nuts and fruit ( they used honey to sweeten things)

Question 21

What did the guests do and what did plebeian eat

Answer 21

Guest propped themselves on couches and used their right arm to reach for food. They ate with fingers and between courses slaves came around with water and towel for them to wash their hands.

Plebeians ate bread, porridge and maybe a little meat. But most relied on the dole ( handouts from the government )

Question 22

What did the Romans wear.

Answer 22

MEN// wore togas, they were cold so most men wore knee length Tunics underneath. The tunic was made out of cool linen in the summer and wool in the winter.
WOMEN// wore long tunics with a belt. After a girl married she wore a long woollen tunic called a stola. rich women wore plenty of make up and often died their hair red. They wore jewellery.

Men and women wore sandals in the house and shoes outside

Question 23

What arts and crafts were they good at.

Answer 23

Ancient Romans we’re skilled craftspeople.potters made red clay pots and carved designs on vases. They made mosaics too. Romans learned how to make glass bottle by the art glass -blowing. Artist designed murals. Engineers used arches in their buildings

Question 24

What gods did they believe in ?

Answer 24

They believed in many gods for e.g.
JUPITER - father of the gods
MARS -god of war
VENUS - goddess of love.

Romans prayed to different gods on depending what they needed. Someone might pray to mars to keep them safe in the war.gods had their own forums. The pantheon was a temple to all gods.

Question 25

Household gods.

Answer 25

They were called Lares. Every family had a shrine at home to its household gods. Romans though they were spirits of their ancestors. They prayed to them every day.

Question 26

Christianity

Answer 26

Romans were tolerant of other foreign gods as long as they still obeyed the emperor. Christianity was started after AD 30 by the followers of god. Problem was Christians only believed in one god and refused to believe in roman gods too. The Romans saw this as betrayal and Romans were tortured and killer.eventually in AD337 emperor Constantine became an christian and was made the official religion

Question 27

How did they bury the dead

Answer 27

When a person died the family put coins on their eyes for a fare to the new world. People believed the person spirit was rowed across the river Styx into the next world. The funeral for an important man was held in a forum. It was forbidden to bury someone in the city so they were buried outside the city walls . Bodies were cremated and the ashes were placed in urns (jars) many people were buried in catacombs

Question 28

Roman Baths

Answer 28

The Romans loved baths so they were public baths in every roman city. Pompeii had three and there were 900 in Rome. They were cheap and children were allowed free. Men and woman bathed separately. At big baths there would areas for men and women and at small they went at different times. Most Romans went to the baths everyday and to chat to friends and excerise too

Question 29

Visiting the Roman Baths

Answer 29

1) slave would massage you with olive oil
2) then you could go to the exercise area
3) you could relax with your friends or go to the caldarium.
4) then you could get fridgarium.

Question 30

Chariot racing in Rome

Answer 30

Chariot races are held in Circus Maximus.it had room for 250K. Usually 4 teams completed the race,the reds,greens,whites and blues. The fans wore the colour of their theme and they betted. 4 horses running pulled by the chariots. They raced seven laps. Crashes were common and people and horses died

Question 31

Gladiators

Answer 31

Romans loved to watch gladiators fight. The fight were held in the colosseum. The colosseum held nearly 50k people and fights usually went for a week. They would draw a shade to protect the audience from the heat. There were special seats for patricians and important people. Gladiators were usually slaves. They wore armour and used sleds and trident to fight. If they won they could retrieve their freedom and become wealthy.

Question 32

What happened to the Roman Empire

Answer 32

Around the Roman Empire especially in the area we now call Germany there were warlike tribes. They include the Goths, Vandals. Saxon and franks. The ere called barbarians because they could not write it live in cites.

Question 33

Rome is defeated

Answer 33

Around AD400 Germans poured into Roman Empire to find land.
The barbarians took over different parts of Europe.the bar rains were not as organised as the Romans and all of Romans buildings etc had fall into ruins.however the Roman Empire was still strong in the east and became known as the Byzantine empire. Later many of the old roman ideas came back to the east this is called the renaissance.