Roman Engineering & Architecture
This raised channel carried water from mountains into cities across deep valleys
What is an aqueduct?
Roman artists were known for creating beautiful versions of these-decorative designs made from small colored tiles.
What are mosaics?
Virgil wrote a great epic poem about the founding of Rome called this.
What is the Aeneid?
This period of Roman peace lasted until AD 180s and means "Roman peace" in Latin.
What is Pax Romana?
This great Greek doctor in the Roman Empire(AD 100s) studied the body and described the valves of the heart.
Who is Galen?
The Romans made this material by mixing lime with volcanic rock and ash, creating very hard and watertight structures.
What is cement or concrete?
This is a type of painting done on plaster that decorated many Roman buildings?
What is a fresco?
This was the language of government and law throughout the world where people wrote, conducted business, and kept records.
What is Latin?
To pay for trade goods, Romans used this-coins made from gold and silver.
What is currency or money?
Romans took a practical approach to science, studying the stars to produce this tool for tracking time?
What is the calendar?
This Roman structure in Rome was a huge building constructed for gladiator fights and is topped with a dome.
What is the Colosseum?
Roman sculptors studied what this earlier civilization had done and tried to recreate their brilliance in statues.
What is Greece or the Greeks?
These languages-including Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian-all developed from Latin.
What are Romance languages?
What is they grew or increased?
This is a legal system based on a written code of laws, like the one created by the Romans.
What is civil law?
The Romans built roads in layers using different materials in each layer, making them this quality that has lasted centuries.
What is highly durable or long-lasting?
The Romans copied the Greeks by covering many of their buildings with this white stone material.
What is marble?
Ovid was a Roman author who wrote poems about this subject related to Roman gods and legendary stories.
What is mythology?
Traders brought these luxury items from Asia to Rome-exotic goods that were highly valued.
What are spices and silk?
The Romans' practical use of science can be seen in their engineering achievements, including excellent and durable examples of these transportation structures.
What are roads?
A vault is a type of this architectural feature that the Romans created by combining multiple arches to support building roofs.
What is a set of arches that supports the roof of a building?
Roman painters were particularly skilled at creating these-likelike pictures of people showing their faces and features.
What are portraits?
Many English words like "et cetera", and "veto" originally came from this ancient language
What is Latin?
Roman conquests promoted this economic activity because people in Rome needed raw materials lacking in Italy, which could be found in the provinces.
What is trade?
In the 1500s and 1600s, colonies from countries with civil law traditions carried these legal systems to Africa, Asia, and the Americas, influencing law codes worldwide.
What is civil law or Roman law/legal traditions?