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Question 1

Patricians

Answer 1

The wealthy noble families who ruled Rome

Question 2

Plebeians

Answer 2

The poor, who made up most of the Roman population

Question 3

Citizen

Answer 3

People who had rights under the Roman law

Question 4

The freeing of a slave by their masters after many years of survive

Question 5

Research archaeology

Answer 5

Sometimes sites are big and obvious e.g. ruins and churches. Even when ruins have virtually disappeared an archeologist can locate them with old maps and documents which can pinpoint there location.

Question 6

Aerial photographs

Answer 6

Sometimes show up interesting sites that are invisible at ground level

Question 7

Rescue archaeology

Answer 7

If a new road or building is being build, an excavation might be carried out to make sure no evidence is lost forever

Question 8

Radiocarbon dating (also called carbon-14 dating)

Answer 8

All living things contain carbon-14 when there alive. When we die the level of carbon-14 in the once-living tissue begins to drop at a steady rate. This means that the older the tissue, the less carbon-14 it contains, how little can tell us how old.

Question 9

Geophysical survey

Answer 9

Is like an x-ray of the ground: maps and images of any archaeological evidence underground are made without excavation