Etruscans
legendary founder and first king of the city of Rome
Romulus
Legendary founder and first king of Rome. (The one supposedly raised by a she-wolf.)
Romulus
The hill on which Rome was founded.
Palatine
What do you call birds that stick together?
Vel-crows.
Bundle of rods bound around an ax symbolizing authority
fasces
A person who could predict the future.
soothsayer
First settlers of land near Rome.
Latins
Underground tombs carved in rock
catacombs
The custom of fights between these Romans came from an Etruscan funeral custom.
gladiators
as the site of both the first temple in Rome and modern Rome's municipal government
capitoline hill
Public square of a city where a palace, government buildings, and law courts were located
forum
Trojan hero and legendary founder of the Roman people.
Aeneas
The Roman custom of fights between gladiators came from their funeral custom
Etruscans
Meeting point for the worlds of the living and the dead marked by a stone where two streets met
mundus
He would have been King if not killed by his twin.
Remus
The Roman procession honoring a hero.
Triumph