The Colosseum could hold this many people.
A. 500
B. 5000
C. 50,000
D. 500,000
What is 50,000
100
The Etruscans created statues of humans that look very similar to this other culture's human statues.
What is Archaic Greece?
100
This emperor is portrayed in this statue.
Who is Augustus?
100
This volcano erupted in 79 CE, destroying the Roman resort communities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
100
This term describes true-to-life depictions of Republican Roman leaders designed to emphasize their wisdom
and experience.
What is veristic or verism?
200
This is the official name of the Colosseum.
What is the Flavian Amphitheater?
200
This is one of two famous bronze statues sculpted by the Etruscans.
What is:
Chimera of Arezzo
Capitoline Wolf
200
This emperor burned Rome.
Who is Nero?
200
This portrait of a Pompeiian couple shows they are proud of this.
What is their education/ability to read and write?
200
This was a common, portable way to distribute the emperor’s image throughout the vast Roman Empire. Alexander the Great was the first to use it.
What is putting the emperor’s face on coins?
300
The Colosseum was built during these years.
What is 70-80 CE?
300
This image tells the story of these two brothers, one of whom went on to found Rome.
Who are Remus and Romulus?
300
This philosopher emperor is portrayed in this equestrian statue.
Who is Marcus Aurelius?
300
Most of the paintings preserved at Pompeii are this type of painting done with egg-based paints on wet plaster.
What is fresco?
300
This is the name for the structures travelers into Rome passed under to enter the city. Emperors designed them to showcase their victorious exploits.
What is a triumphal arch?
400
This is the kind of battle that was staged to open the Colosseum.
What is a naval battle? (with real ships and water)
400
A chimera is this kind of creature.
What is a composite creature? (body of lion, snake tail, goat head on back)
400
The emperor Constantine saw this symbol in a vision after praying to the Christian god.
What is the Chi-Ro?
400
The Second Style of painting preserved at Pompeii is notable for depicting one of these two artistic techniques.
What is:
3D modeling
Depth/Perspective
400
This emperor built a whole new forum, with a column at the center depicting a spiraling narrative of his victories.
Who is Trajan?
500
These are two types of people often thrown into the Colosseum games as victims of the gladiators or the animals.
What are:
Prisoners,
Homeless/poor,
Mentally or physically disabled,
Christians
500
These types of tombs were common in Etruscan necropoli.
What are tholos or beehive tombs?
500
Julius Caesar was assassinated on the date March 15, 44 BCE, also know as this. The assassination touched off 20+ years of civil war.
What is the Ides of March?
500
This is the explanation for why so much of Pompeii was preserved.
What is the volcanic ash from Mt. Vesuvius created a hermetic seal over everything in the town?
500
These are two of the main ways the Colosseum served as a propaganda device.
What is:
Built for the people’s entertainment,
Built over the top of Nero’s (a bad emperor) land & statue,
Showcased people and animals from all over the Empire to show its power and vastness