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What were all of the following used for: carruca, plaustrum, cisium, carpentum, lectica?
(LAND) TRANSPORT
B1: What general category of people do foederati, hastati, velites, principes, and sagittarii belong?
SOLDIERS
B2: To what do all of the following related: opus caementicium, opus reticulatum, opus incertum, opus quadratum?
WALLS
Which of the following provincial capital cities was the farthest west: Lugdunum, Emerita Augusta, Tarsus, Nicopolis.
EMERITA AUGUSTA
B1: Which of the following cities in the tossup was the capital of Epirus?
NICOPOLIS
B2: Of which province was Tarsus the capital?
CILICIA
Differentiate in relationships one might have between their amita and their matertera.
AMITA IS A PATERNAL AUNT, MATERTERA IS A MATERNAL AUNT
B1: What was the term for a great-grandchild?
PRONEPOS/PRONEPTIS
B2: What was patruus magnus?
GREAT UNCLE ON YOUR FATHER’S SIDE
The synthesis, sagum, and toga all belonged to what general category of Roman dress, the term for outer garments?
AMICTUS
B1: Tunics and subligaculum belonged to what general category of Roman dress?
INDUTUS
B2: The synthesis was only worn outside at what festival?
SATURNALIA
In wealthier Roman homes, what long corridor and courtyard served as the entryway to the door of a Roman house?
VESTIBULUM
B1: What name did the Romans give to the front door?
OSTIUM / IANUA / FORĒS
B2: What did the Romans call the back door?
POSTICUM
In the wake of the Roman conquest of the Boii in 191 BC, and the creation of Northern Italian colonies such as Bononia in the Padus valley, what military road was constructed as an extension of the Via Flaminia, continuing its course from Arminium to Placentia?
VIA AEMILIA (LEPIDI)
B1: What road, constructed in the 3rd century BC, ran along the Western side of the
Apennines, originally beginning at Rome and terminating at Pisae?
VIA AURELIA
B2: Just over 100 years after its construction, the Via Aurelia was extended by what road, which ran north to Genua, before veering west to connect with the Via Aemilia Lepidi at Placentia?
VIA AEMILIA SCAURA
What structure in the Campus Martius replaced the ancient Ovile as the place at which the Comitia Tributa would cast their votes, following its commissioning by Julius Caesar and completion
by Agrippa?
SAEPTA IULIA
B1: What structure in the Campus Martius was the first permanent theater to be built in Rome?
THEATER OF POMPEY
B2: What structure in the Campus Martius was Rome’s first permanent venue for
competitive athletics?
STADIUM OF DOMITIAN // CIRCUS AGONALIS
Testudinatum, tuscanicum, displuviatum, and tetrastylum were all different styles of what room of a Roman house?
ATRIUM
B1: What was distinctive about an atrium tetrastylum?
FOUR COLUMNS ON THE CORNERS OF THE COMPLUVIUM
B2: What was distinctive about an atrium testudinatum?
IT HAD NO COMPULVIUM
What modern Moroccan city would the Romans have called Tingi or Tingis?
TANGIERS
B1: What modern Libyan city would the Romans have called Oea?
TRIPOLI
B2: What modern Jordanian city would the Romans have called Philadelphia?
AMMAN
Which of the following ancient cities was located farthest west: Aelia Capitolina, Olisipo, Tripoli, Patavium, Tomi.
OLISIPO
B1: What is the modern day name of Olisipo and in which country is it located?
LISBON & PORTUGAL
B2: Which of those cities, while also giving its modern day name, was located farthest east?
AELIA CAPITOLINA, JERUSALEM
Augustus divided up the province of Hispania into three provinces. Which of the provinces had its capital at Tarraco?
HISPANIA TARRACONENSIS
B1: Which province had the capital of Corduba?
HISPANIA BAETICA
B2: Which province had the capital of Emerita Augusta?
LUSITANIA
Keeping in mind that today is March 31st, what festival, which the Romans would have begun celebrating next week over a period ofseven days, commemorated the anniversary of the arrival of the
goddess Cybele in Rome?
LUDI MEGALENSES // MEGALENSIA // MEGALESIA
B1: What deity’s cult of Greek origin was brought to Rome in 293 BC in hopes of saving the city from a plague?
AESCULAPIUS // ASCLEPIUS
B2: What other April festival’s original purpose was to purify the shepherds and their
flocks, although by the end of the Republic it had become largely associated with the founding of the city?
PARILIA
What was the term for a governor of a senatorial province?
Answer: PROCONSUL(E) (PROPRAETORE)
B1. During the Republic, the senate made this appointment. In theory, how was a man chosen?
Answer: BY LOT
B2. What was the term for a governor of an imperial province chosen by the emperor
Answer: LEGATUS AUGUSTI
Outside of the city walls, how many lictors attended a dictator?
Answer: 24
B1. How many lictors attended a consul?
Answer: 12
B2. How many lictors attended a Julio-Claudian emperor?
Answer: 12
In the Roman circus, what was the līnea alba?
THE STARTING LINE
B1: What two word Latin phrase designates the person at the circus who dropped the mappa?
DATOR / EDITOR LUDŌRUM / MUNERUM
B2: What gate at the circus stood at the opposite end of the porta pompae?
PORTA TRIUMPHĀLIS
