Greek sculptors created statues with an ideal appearance and Roman sculptors created statues with this type of appearance.
What is realistic?
100
This age is known as the golden age of Latin literature.
What is the Age of Augustus? (or Augustan Age)
100
All Roman upper-class children (boys and girls) were expected to learn to do this.
What is read?
100
The increase in the use of slaves was a result of this.
What is Roman conquest? (war)
100
There was a huge gap between these two groups of people.
What is the rich and the poor?
200
Romans were the first people to use this material on a massive scale.
What is concrete?
200
This historian's work, History of Rome, is the most famous Latin prose work of the golden age and traces the history of Rome from the foundation in 142 books.
Who is Livy?
200
Roman families were headed by this, the dominant male.
What is paterfamilias?
200
This gladiator led the most famous slave revolt in Italy in 73 B.C.
Who is Spartacus?
200
The poor lived in these, six story high apartment buildings that were poorly built and often collapsed.
What is insulae?
300
These three forms based on curved lines have been characterized as Roman architecture.
What is the arch, vault, and dome?
300
This poet attacks job dissatisfaction and greed in the Satires.
Who is Horace?
300
Legal minimum age for women to marry.
What is 12 years old?
300
The murder of a master by a slave meant this for all the other household slaves.
What is execution?
300
With close to one million people, the city of Rome was very ___________.
What is congested (overcrowded, noisy, dangerous, filthy)?
400
The Romans created this to supply the population with water.
What are aqueducts?
400
Virgil's greatest work that describes an ideal Roman, including virtues of duty, piety, and faithfulness.
What is Aeneid?
400
Teachers were often this group of people because upper-class Romans had to learn Latin and Greek.
Who are Greek slaves?
400
6,000 followers of Spartacus were killed by this.
What is crucified?
400
This emperor inaugurated the Colosseum in A.D. 80.
Who is Emperor Titus?
500
American engineers learned from Ancient Roman history that this material creates a more durable concrete, often used for highways and bridges.
What is lime with deposits of volcanic ash?
500
Who is the most distinguished poet of the Augustan Age?
Who is Virgil?
500
For boys who turn 16, a purple-edged toga is traded for a plain white toga which is considered this.
What is toga of manhood?
500
These people were in high demand as tutors, musicians, doctors, and artists.
Who are Greek slaves?
500
Name the three major types of Roman entertainment.
What is chariot races, dramatic performances (plays, theater), and gladiator shows?