Rome

Question 1

What was the education of a plebeian child

Answer 1

They received basic education at home

Question 2

Describe the education of a wealthy Roman child

Answer 2

• Their education would be stages:
  ludus, grammaticus, oratory
  -They received strict discipline.
• equipment: stylus, wax tablets and abacus

Question 3

Briefly describe chariot racing

Answer 3

• famous place in Rome called circus maximus
• no seating division
• very dangerous (killed)
• gambling

Question 4

Breifly describe the theatre

Answer 4

• large semicirclar buildings
• separated by social class and gender
• male actors
• tragedy and comedy

Question 5

Gladiator

Answer 5

Men who fought in an oval arena called amphitheatres in nearly every major city in Rome
- ex soldiers who went to special schools an expensive to buy

Question 6

Colosseum

Answer 6

The most famous amphitheatre

Question 7

Briefly describe amphitheatre

Answer 7

• oval arenas
• gladiators
• colosseum
• seating divisions by class and gender
• had fights with exotic wild animals , executions, flooded for mock sea battle

Question 8

Manumission

Answer 8

When a slave is given freedom after many years of service to their master

Question 9

How were slaves treated ?

Answer 9

• property of their masters
• building aqueducts
• did cooking, cleaning, farming , mining
• harshly treated and worked to death

Question 10

Polytheists

Answer 10

People who believed in many different gods

Question 11

Describe religion in Roman times

Answer 11

• variations of Greek gods,
• made offerings
• pray at a lararium ex:pantheon

CHRISTIANITY
- monotheists
-persecuted
- eventually the emperor of Constantine lifted the ban on Christianity
- official religion in 313ad
- worlds most powerful religion

Question 12

Describe a Roman town

Answer 12

-citezians
- defence walls, grid system streets, forum, temples, aqueducts, monuments, public bathes and toilets, amphitheatre

Question 13

Citizens

Answer 13

People who had rights under Roman law

Question 14

Amphitheatre

Answer 14

Where gladiator games where held

Question 15

Briefly describe bathing

Answer 15

-free
-public
-social place
- separate gender areas

Question 16

Briefly describe funerals

Answer 16

• common from death of childbirth, unexpected illness or illness
• belief: when a person died they crosses the river Styx with Charon
• body cremated outside of town walls

Question 17

Describe the role of women

Answer 17

-married at 14/15
-run husbands home,
- make his clothes,
- supervise slaves,
- bear and raise a son
- usually died in childbirth

Question 18

Patricians

Answer 18

A wealthy noble families who ruled Rome.

Question 19

Describe life as a patrician

Answer 19

• huge estates with hundreds of slaves
• controlled the Roman government and army
• men wore the toga and women wore stola
• house in town = domus, house in countryside = villa

Question 20

Describe a domus

Answer 20

• house for a patrician family
• contain: atrium, impluvium, lararium, cubiculum, culina, peristylium, tablinum, triclinium, slave quarters

Question 21

Mosaics

Answer 21

Pictures made of small pieces of stone, glass, or tile

Question 22

Plebeians

Answer 22

Poor people who made up the vast majority of the population

Question 23

Describe live as a plebeian

Answer 23

• poor
• farmed, traded, worked in the army
• receive the dole
• men wore a tunic, women wore a plain stola,
• lived in apartment blocks called insulae

Question 24

Equites

Answer 24

Plebeians who became quite wealthy through trade and business ( money but no power)

Question 25

Insulae

Answer 25

Apartment blocks for plebeians

Question 26

Desciribe an insulae

Answer 26

• apartment blocks
• no running water,
• rubbish thrown below
• danger of fire
• bottom floor= workshops
• above = apartments (poorest = higher floors)

Question 27

Dole

Answer 27

Payment of free grain for plebeians