Daily Life
The big meal of the day for Ancient Romans.
What is Dinner?
The center of most Roman towns, with government buildings and a marketplace.
What is the Forum?
The large country homes of the wealthy.
What were Villas?
The percentage of people in Ancient Rome that were slaves.
What is 30%?
The wealthy upper class of Ancient Rome.
What were the Patricians?
The year Roman boys began formal schooling.
What is age 7?
What are Aqueducts?
The Roman group that received a small farm as part of their retirement.
What were soldiers?
The owners of slaves that were called "servi publici."
What was the Roman government?
The poor, working-class citizens of Ancient Rome.
What were the Plebeians?
The typical job for Roman wife.
What is managing the household and finances?
They were straight, laid out in a grid, and paved with stones.
What are Ancient Roman city streets?
The major crop imported to Rome from Spain and North Africa.
What were Olives?
They were not allowed to hold public office.
Who were freed slaves?
The early laws that protected the basic rights of all Roman citizens regardless of class.
What were the Law of Twelve Tables?
The best way for a Roman of the lower class to raise their status.
What is becoming a soldier?
The apartment buildings in a Roman city.
What were insulae?
The major crop imported from Egypt to the Roman Empire.
What were grains?
The name given to slave rebellions in Ancient Rome?
What were Servile Wars?
The public officials elected by the plebeians.
What were Tribunes?
The time in the day when Romans started their dinner.
What is 3pm?
A public building built in larger Roman cities for entertainment.
What was an Amphitheater?
They typically worked the fields of the very wealthy farmers.
What were Slaves?
An ancient Roman festival where the roles of slave and master were reversed.
What is Saturnalia?
A famous Roman Senator that was a plebeian.
Who was Cicero?