Romans

Question 1

When was Rome the most magnificent and largest city in the world?

Answer 1

2000 years ago

Question 2

What river was Rome founded beside?

Answer 2

The river Tibre

Question 3

What were the name of the group of farmers who founded Rome?

Answer 3

Latins, people of the wide valley.

Question 4

What is the legend about the founder of Rome?

Answer 4

Romulas and Remus

Question 5

What did Rome rapidly become?

Answer 5

Rome rapidly became a rich, beautiful and exciting city

Question 6

What did Rome hold?

Answer 6

Rome held markets, violent games, excitement for all.

Question 7

What was Rome. ( in relation to the Empire)

Answer 7

It was the centre of the Empire

Question 8

2000 years ago the Romans were the most what people in the world?

Answer 8

Powerful

Question 9

What did people do at the Roman Forum?

Answer 9

Crowds of people shopped,talked, went about their business in this market area.

Question 10

Could you use carts in a Roman forum.

Answer 10

No you could not

Question 11

What stopped you from bringing carts into the Roman Forum?

Answer 11

A special law stopped you from bringing carts into the Roman Forum. Thus avoiding any interruptions.

Question 12

Huge statues of who stood around the forum?

Answer 12

Emperors, army generals & famous romans dotted around the forums

Question 13

What temples were around the forums?

Answer 13

Temples to Jupiter, Apollo, and other friendly gods

Question 14

What other buildings were around the Roman forum?

Answer 14

Law court, exchange building, town hall.

Question 15

Was the Roman forum important?

Answer 15

Yes the forum was very important

Question 16

What was a forum?

Answer 16

It was a market place

Question 17

Did many people live near/around the forum?

Answer 17

Yes

Question 18

What did Rome quickly grow to be?

Answer 18

It quickly grew in size and importance

Question 19

Where were new buildings and roads added?

Answer 19

Outside city walls and across the 7 hills of Rome.

Question 20

Beautiful parks and what were established in the developing city?

Answer 20

Gardens

Question 21

Why were aqueducts built?

Answer 21

Aqueducts were built to provide the city with a fresh water supply.

Question 22

Why were sewers built?

Answer 22

They were built to transport the city’s waste

Question 23

The were the 3 main Roman pastimes?

Answer 23

Visiting the baths, the games and the races

Question 24

What were one of the most important buildings in a Roman town?

Answer 24

The baths

Question 25

What did people go to the baths to do?

Answer 25

They went there to keep clean, exercise and meet friends.

Question 26

How many temperatures did the baths have?

Answer 26

3

Question 27

What was the name of the hot room?

Answer 27

Caldarium

Question 28

What was the Latin name of the warm room?

Answer 28

Tepidarium

Question 29

What was the Latin name for the cold room?

Answer 29

Fridgidarium

Question 30

How were the hot rooms heated?

Answer 30

They were heated by using an underfloor heating system

Question 31

Were soaps used in the baths?

Answer 31

No

Question 32

How did the romans clean themselves?

Answer 32

They used sigils to scrape the dirt of their body’s

Question 33

What did the romans do after they were clean?

Answer 33

They rubbed their body’s in scented oils

Question 34

What was circus Maximus?

Answer 34

It was a hippodrome.

Question 35

What was the width of circus Maximus?

Answer 35

It was 200m wide

Question 36

How long was circus Maximus?

Answer 36

It was 600m long

Question 37

How many people could circus Maximus seat?

Answer 37

250,000 people

Question 38

What was the site of chariot riding?

Answer 38

Circus Maximus

Question 39

Chariots were pulled by up to how many horses?

Answer 39

4

Question 40

What speed did the chariot riders turn corners at?

Answer 40

45km/hr

Question 41

Was racing popular?

Answer 41

Yes

Question 42

We’re bets placed on the chariot racers?

Answer 42

Yes

Question 43

Where were games held?

Answer 43

They were held at an amphitheater

Question 44

What was the most famous amphitheater?

Answer 44

The colosseum was the most famous amphitheater, it holds up to 50,000 people

Question 45

What did gladiators fight?

Answer 45

They fought wild animals and they sometimes fought themselves

Question 46

Were all of the gladiators professionally trained?

Answer 46

No, only some were.

Question 47

Did any fights end in death?

Answer 47

Most fights ended in death

Question 48

What power did the crowd have?

Answer 48

The crowd had the power of life and death

Question 49

How could the crowd use their power?

Answer 49

They used it by giving a thumbs up if they wanted him alive or a thumbs down if they wanted him dead.

Question 50

What was the Latin name for a rich person?

Answer 50

Patrician

Question 51

What did the rich do?

Answer 51

Some of the rich helped to rule the empire while others were generals in the Roman Army.

Question 52

What did money bring?

Answer 52

Money brought responsibility and power

Question 53

What did wealthy romans live in?

Answer 53

Romans lived in splendour and luxury.

Question 54

Where did the wealthy romans live during the summer?

Answer 54

They lived in fine town houses or in villas in the county during the summer

Question 55

What did the Romans love, in relation to their houses?

Answer 55

Open spaces, beauty and colour

Question 56

What did their houses have?

Answer 56

They had walls, ceilings and floors that were highly decorated with murals and mosaics

Question 57

Many wealthy citizens often had statues of who in their house?

Answer 57

Statues of Roman gods and emperors to pray to in their houses

Question 58

Who did they pray to?

Answer 58

Their ancestors, apollo, Venus, Jupiter and many other gods

Question 59

Who has the biggest influence on the Roman art?

Answer 59

The Greeks

Question 60

What did rich people wear?

Answer 60

They wore wool or linen tunic. It had short sleeves, reached to the knees and was mainly worn indoors with sandals.

Question 61

What would rich romans wear outdoors?

Answer 61

They wore a wool or linen tunic that had short sleeves and reached down to the knees with a toga over it and boots

Question 62

What did rich Roman women wear?

Answer 62

They wore a palla with makeup and perfume

Question 63

Who served rich romans their food?

Answer 63

Their slaves

Question 64

Were the rich romans table manners very good?

Answer 64

No they didn’t have very good table manners. They used knives and forks but we’re still very messy eaters

Question 65

What did rich people drunk with their dinner?

Answer 65

Wine

Question 66

Where were rich romans fed?

Answer 66

They were fed on reclining couches

Question 67

What was the voimitorium? Who had to work there ?

Answer 67

It was the sick room, some slaves had to work their way

Question 68

What food did rich people have plenty of?

Answer 68

Fish, meat, fruit and vegetables

Question 69

List 5 examples of a rich Roman meal

Answer 69

1. Whole lobster with asparagus 2. Goose liver 3. Truffle and mushroom 4. Spring chicken 5. Snails and olive oil with white wine sauce.

Question 70

What was a slave, in relation to their master? How could they come to be that

Answer 70

They were a piece of property, they could have been captured during a war or a a battle

Question 71

Wealthy people generally had how many slaves?

Answer 71

They generally had one or two slaves

Question 72

How many slaves did the Emeror have?

Answer 72

He had over 20,000 slaves

Question 73

Where did most poor romans live ?

Answer 73

They lived in a single room in a block of flats

Question 74

What did families do in that flat?

Answer 74

They cooked, ate, slept, and lived in the one room

Question 75

What was an ever present threat for a poor persons room?

Answer 75

Fire

Question 76

What were the streets below the apartments like?

Answer 76

The streets were muddy, dirty & unhygienic

Question 77

Did the apartments improve?

Answer 77

Over time they did improve, they became bigger and better as ideas improved

Question 78

What was the biggest flaw of the flats that the poor lived in?

Answer 78

They were cold and damp in the winter and hot and stuffy in the summer

Question 79

At one stage what did the romans rule over?

Answer 79

They ruled over most of Europe

Question 80

Where can remainders of Roman ruins be found?

Answer 80

They can still be found over many European countries.

Question 81

Who followed the Roman army? And what did they do?

Answer 81

Builders and engineers followed behind the soldiers, who designed and constructed towns, roads , bridges, temples and forts

Question 82

The foreign lands that the romans ruled was called ‘ the Empire’. What did it cover?

Answer 82

It stretched from the south of Scotland to Egypt