Test 2.2

Question 1

What is are horse tracks around the circus called

Answer 1

Hippodromes

Question 2

How many laps did chariot races consist of and how many people were on a team

Answer 2

7 laps and 4 people per team

Question 3

What is a metae

Answer 3

A post on each side of the track where the chariot/horses turned around

Question 4

What is a spina

Answer 4

Another structure in the middle of the track (also decorated with gods and statues)

Question 5

Who owned the chariot teams

Answer 5

The patricians

Question 6

Which class did the chariot drivers usually come from

Answer 6

Low class

Question 7

What happened in btw the chariot races

Answer 7

Animal fights, human fights, and slaughtering of humans

Question 8

True or false

A lot of politics were done at Roman circuses

Answer 8

True

Question 9

What was a problem in Rome

Answer 9

Mass unemployment

Question 10

What was the most expensive Ludi Romani

Answer 10

The naumachia

Question 11

Who staged the first naumachia and why

Answer 11

Julius Caesar and to celebrate his victory

Question 12

What is a naumachia

Answer 12

A fight btw gladiators

Question 13

Who staged the biggest naumachia and how many people attended

Answer 13

Claudius and 19,000 participants

Question 14

If you were sentenced to the gladiator games how many years do you have to serve

Answer 14

3 years

Question 15

Who were the gladiators

Answer 15

Pictured as the bad boys throughout Rome and women in the upper class were attracted to them

Question 16

True or false

The gladiators were people from Rome

Answer 16

False the were people who were slaves or war or disobedient slaves

Question 17

What’s the term for a Greek gladiator

Answer 17

Holomachi

Question 18

What’s the term of a rookie gladiator

Answer 18

Triones

Question 19

What’s the term of a veteran gladiator

Answer 19

Veterani

Question 20

What’s the term for a gladiator who volunteered

Answer 20

Auetorati

Question 21

What’s do the term clonista mean

Answer 21

A gladiator coach and sponsor (also former gladiator)

Question 22

What’s does the term Charon mean

Answer 22

Roman god of death in the afterlife

Question 23

What was the coloessum really called and who built it

Answer 23

Flavian amphitheater and by Vespasian

Question 24

True or false

Did the colloseum have a elevator system under the stadium

Answer 24

True

Question 25

What was velarium

Answer 25

The canvas around the top of the stadium to keep spectators dry and cool

Question 26

What did the normal gladiator games start with

Answer 26

Began with an execution, animals fights in the morning and then with humans fights in the afternoon

Question 27

Where are the gladiator schools located

Answer 27

Capua, Pompeii, Rome

Question 28

How were the gladiator taken care of

Answer 28

Even though they were slaves they were well taken care of

Question 29

Was the rebellion of Spartacus successful

Answer 29

No they were all killed by the Roman army and then made a trail of dead bodies back to Rome to send a message

Question 30

Who was Cicero and Seneca and did they like the gladiator fights

Answer 30

A Roman philosophers and no

Question 31

True or false

Christians were sacrificed at the gladiator games due to religious reasons

Answer 31

True

Question 32

What was the largest circus in Rome called

Answer 32

Circus Maximus