The two methods of travel and transport used throughout the Empire?
What are by walking along the roads or by sailing on the sea.
100
Where did Pompeii get their water? How was it stored?
What is from aqueducts. In large stone tanks on high ground in the northern part of the city.
100
What was the purpose of the house windows?
What is to let light in, but keep out the heat.
100
How could one become a slave?
What is by being taken as a prisoner of war, captured by pirates, being born from slave parents.
100
What did it cost to go to the theater?
What is it was free.
200
How were advertisements and public notices handled?
What is painted on the whitewashed walls outside of stores and houses.
200
What is a patrons?
What is a Roman patron
200
What was the difference between the compluvium and the impluvium?
What is the compluvium was an opening in the roof and the impluvium was a pool where rain water would collect.
200
How was slavery different in Pompeii from slavery in America?
What is slavery was not based on race.
200
Who went to the theater in Pompeii?
What is slaves, citizens, children.
300
What were the major purposes for the forum in Pompeii?
What is It was the heart of commercial, religious, and administrative life of Pompeii.
300
What is a clients?
What is a Roman client
300
List four rooms a typical Pompeian house would have.
What are Atrium, tablinum, cubiculum, fauces, peristylium, triclinium, culina, latrina.
300
How did Romans regard slavery?
What is as a normal and necessary part of life.
300
What was the Odeon?
What is a smaller, more elegant roofed theater.
400
What were the purposes of the large stone blocks at the entrance ways?
What is to stop carts from coming into the forum.
400
Why was Venus important to the people of Pompeii?
What is they believed she took special interest in their town.
400
What are 4 ways a Roman house differs from a modern one?
What are the house cam right up to the sidewalk, the windows were small, many had shops around them, the outside of the house did not look inviting.
400
Under what circumstances might a slave be freed?
What is A reward for good service, by buying their freedom, in the will of their master.
400
What are two types of plays a Pompeian might see at the theater?
What are pantomime, comedy, farces.
500
What were the major functions of the basilica?
What are The courthouse and a meeting place for businessmen.
500
What was the Latin name for the main meal of the day?
What is cēna.
500
List four details about the Roman dining room and/or Roman dining course.
What are Couches arranged around a table, people ate lying down, food cut by slaves before being served, people ate with fingers or a spoon, not forks, several courses.
500
By the first century A.D. what percentage of the Italian population were slaves?