Figures
Assassinated on the Ides of March
Julius Caesar
Hosted gladiator games
Colosseum
Capital city of Roman empire
Rome
Built to carry water into cities
Center for hygiene and social life
Roman baths
Twin that founded city of Rome
Romulus
Forum
River flows through Rome
Tiber river
Roman language
Roman gladiator modeled after fisherman
Retiarri
Rome's first emperor
Augustus
Hosted chariot games
Circus maximus
Also known as "mare nostrum"
Mediterranean Sea
Road connecting Rome to Brundisium
Via Appia
Gladiator that represented Roman power: famously held gladium & scutum
Murmillo
Famous for "fiddling while Rome burned"
Nero
Building of worship to many gods
Pantheon
Mountain range north of Italy
The Alps
Heating system under the floors in the baths
Hypocaust
Mid-december agricultural festival
Saturnalia
Emperor that built wall across Northern Britain
Hadrian
Hill home to emperors
Palatine hill
Conquered city across the Tiber
Carthage
365 day solar calendar with leap year (still used today!)
Title of household gods, shrines present in atrium
Lares