RULERS
ARCHITECTURE
ENGINEERING
SCULPTURE AND PAINTING
POT POURRI
100
He was club-footed and stuttered, but built a vast empire and two aqueducts for Rome..
Who was Claudius?
100
The largest of its kind in the world at the time, it held 50,000 spectators.
What is the Coliseum?
100
We refined this to revolutionize construction.
What is concrete?
100
This was made to show Augustus as a supreme ruler.
What is Augustus of Prima Porta?
100
Well preserved Roman ruins in the north of Jordan are here.
What is Jerash?
200
He was stabbed by Brutus.
Who was Julius Caesar?
200
It was the largest one of these in the ancient world, and remains the largest of its kind today.
What is the concrete dome of the Pantheon??
200
We refined these to build aqueducts and much larger buildings and bridges.
What are arches?
200
Painting using bees wax.
What is encaustic?
200
We used this beautiful medium extensively on floors.
What is mosaic?
300
He conquered the Parthians.
Who was Augustus?
300
This was built to commemorate the Roman Era of Peace
What is the Ara Pacis?
300
When we crossed two barrel vaults we made these.
What are groin vaults?
300
Rome often employed artists from this country.
What is Greece?
300
It was covered in a volcanic eruption.
What is Pompeii?
400
He fiddled while Rome burned.
Who was Nero?
400
Roman villas always had these two characteristic features.
What are an atrium and a peristyle garden?
400
We were the first to build these, and they're all over the place now.
What are roads?
400
His portrait, in bronze, shows him on horseback.
Who is Marcus Aurelius?
400
This land was the furthest east our empire grew.
What is Palestine?
500
She seduced Claudius into naming Nero as his successor.
Who is Agrippina?
500
This enormous stadium was the scene of chariot races, in Rome.
What is the Circus Maximus?
500
This is how long it took the Romans to cross the Rhine with a wooden bridge.
What is ten days?
500
A giant marble head, remnant of a huge portrait of the emperor who took Christianity as the official religion of Rome.
Who is Constantine?
500
Worn on the chest of Roman warriors, made of leather.
What is a cuirass?
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