L5 Flashcards
This is the founder of Rome.
Romulus
The Roman Army had a 3 line system that was made of 4 lines. These people were the youngest of the army and used long range weapons.
Velites
The Roman Army had a 3 line system that was made of 4 lines. They were considered the 1st line of defense.
Hastati
The Roman Army had a 3 line system that was made of 4 lines. They were considered the 2nd line of defense.
Principes
The Roman Army had a 3 line system that was made of 4 lines. They were considered the 3rd line of defense.
Triarii
This event in 107 BC gave permission for people to become anyone in terms of your position in the army regardless of your wealth.
Marius Reforms
This is also known as a castra. These buildings were standardized and had private and public toilets, baths, running water, and most importantly, a heating system.
Forts
These letters were written on thin wood such as shingles. they included letters from women and slaves.
Vindolanda letters
This is what “Omnes viae Roman ducunt” means.
All roads lead to Rome.
This contraption was used to get right angles for the roads in Rome.
Gromas
This is the 1.5m ditch dug for Roman roads.
Fossa
This is the compacted sand or dry earth part of Roman roads.
Pavimentum
This is the crushed rock part of Roman roads.
Statumen
This is the cemented large gravel part of Roman roads.
Rudus
This is the cemented sand and small gravel part of Roman roads. This is our modern concrete.
Nucleus
This is the large stone slabs part of Roman roads.
Summum dorsum
This is who the Roman roads were built by.
Army
This was a precursor to google earth, and gave information to how to get to places.
Milliarium Aureum (Golden Milestone)
This is what the entire city of Rome was built out of.
Cement
This was an architectural order of the Greek period, called the Greek style column.
Doric Columns
This was the most common architectural order of the Greek period, and was a bit more expensive to produce.
Ionic Columns
This was the most elaborate and difficult architectural order of the Greek period, and was very expensive.
Corinthian Columns
This place, was built by the Vespasian, to provide entertainment, by staging fights against beasts and forcing females to have sex with beasts.
Flavian Theatre
This was the largest public structure ever built.
Circus Maximus
This was the sewer system in Rome
Cloaca Maxima
Known as the “stinking Venus”, was a traditional way to deal with plumbing problems.
Venus-Cloacina
This person had the correct theory of ocean tides. It was due to the gravitational pull of the moon that causes oceans to bulge out in the direction of the moon.
Posidonius
This person came up with the first massive encyclopedia, a “Wikipedia”.
Pliny The Elder
This person wrote the “Almagest”, and came up with the first mathematical model of cosmos.
Claudius Ptolemy
This is the reason why Rome ended.
Religion
