Stages 23-24 Culture Flashcards

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A protecting spirit

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Genius

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Promises or offerings

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Vota

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Priests who based predictions on flight of birds

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Augures

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Surface of a road

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Pavimentum

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Household gods

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Penates

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Embankment of earth

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Agger

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Household shrine, place for family worship

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Lararium

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Posting stations

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Mutationes

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Maps for travelers

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Itineraria

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Rest houses

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Mansiones

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Chief priest

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Pontifex maximus

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Roman roads

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Viae romanae

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Goddess of hearth and home

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Vesta

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Government warrant that entitled bearer to fresh horses

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Diploma

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Omens

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Omina

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Innkeepers

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Caupones

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Curse tablet

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Defixio

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Term for curvature of a road surface

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Camber

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Head of the household

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Paterfamilias

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An imperial post

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Cursus publicus

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Liver-looker

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Haruspex

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Spirits or divinities

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Numina

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Instrument used to achieve a straight line when building a road

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Groma