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What is an arch |
A curved structure copied by the Greeks and perfected by the Romans with a keystone |
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What is an aqueduct |
Human made channel built to carry water |
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What is a plebeian |
Member of the common people |
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What is a patrician |
A wealthy landowner and member of ruling class |
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What does veni vidi vici mean |
I came I saw I conquered-Caesar |
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What was Hadrian's pantheon |
A domed temple for all of the gods with a open circle at the top called an oculus |
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What was Hadrian's Wall |
A wall spreading 700 miles to protect Rome from the barbarians in Brittania |
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What was Trajan's Forum |
First shopping mall |
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What was Vespacian's coliseum |
A big stadium for gladiator games built on top of Nero's man made lake after it was drained |
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What was Caesars bridge |
Caesar had his army built a bridge to Germania to prove he could |
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What happened in 80 AD |
Titus opened the coliseum |
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What happened in 79 AD |
Pompeii was buried by Vesuvius |
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What happened in 44 BC |
Caesar was murdered |
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What happened in 48 BC |
Caesar becomes emperor for life |
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What happened in 509 BC |
The Roman republic starts |
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What happened in 753 BC |
The founding of Rome |
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What does veto mean |
To reject |
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What is a keystone |
Last concrete wedge used to distribute the weight equally in a wedge |
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What does Nero say before he dies? |
What an artist dies in me |
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What is a consul? |
One of the top government officials |
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What does SPQR mean |
The senate an the people of Rome |
Who were the three original inhabitants of Rome |
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How many wars were there in the Punic Wars |
Three |
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What people fought the Punic wars |
Rome and Carthage |
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Who won all three Punic wars |
Rome |
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In 2nd Punic war |
Hannibal surprised the Romans by climbing the alps with 30 elephants and walking across Rome winning battles. So Scipio went to Carthage so Hannibal would have to come back to Carthage and defeated Hannibal |
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What happened in the third Punic war |
Rome burnt down Carthage and sowed the soil with salt so nothing could ever grow there again |
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What does Meditteranean sea mean |
Our sea |
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What did Nero say before he died |
He said what an artist dies in me |
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What was a republic |
A type of government where the people voted representatives to stand for their opinions |
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What was a forum |
The Romans invention of the first shopping mall |
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Who conspired against Caesar the most |
BC Brutus and Crasus |
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Who was a emperor |
A person who rules an empire and makes all the decisions |
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Representative |
A person who represents the people and their opinions who voted him/her into office |
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What was the geography of Italy |
Mountainous, peninsula (Romans used the water early) Major river and fertile land |
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What were the standards and the signifers |
Standard bearers who stood out because they animal head skins on their heads |
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Who were the aquilifers and the legionary eagle |
The eagle standard was made of precious medal and symbolized the power and honor of Rome and the legion. An aquilifer carried the eagle standard and wore a lion skin headdress. if lost the legion was disgraced and only if you recover a captured legionary eagle honor will then return to legion |
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What was a legion |
A group of 5000 soldiers |
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What was a centuria |
A group of 80 soldiers |
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Who said I found Rome a city of brick and made it into a city of marble |
Octavian/Augustus |
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What was a cohort |
A group of 600 men |
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Who were Romulus and Remus |
Two brothers that fight to the death for their separate names of Rome.Remus does and Romulus names the city Rome. |
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Who was Caesar |
A brilliant general and dictator of Rome from 48-44BC |
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Who was Octavian/Augustus |
Caesar's nephew who he adopted and first emperor of the Roman Empire. He found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble. |
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Who was Hadrian |
An emperor who wanted to add as much to architecture as Octavian did. He but a 700 mile long walk to protect Rome and built the pantheon as a temple for all of the gods (no one knows if Hadrian designed the pantheon of if opolidorus did |
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Who was Nero |
A horrible emperor who killed people often stole people's money for himself and was suspect for the burning of Rome. After Rome was burned he used public money and space to build his own pleasure palace |
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Who was Hannibal |
The most famous Carthaginian general who was defeated in the Second pubic war by Scipio |
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Who was Scipio |
A roman emperor who defeated Hannibal by making him go back to Carthage after terrorizing Rome |
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Who was Vespasian |
The emperor after Nero who wanted to do something for the people so he built the coliseum over Nero's private lake after it was drained but died before it opened |
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