This group were the dominant force in Tuscany (and northern Italy) and had extended their influence to Campania - but then the Romans rose to prominence.
What is the Etruscans?
100
The Roman naval fleet for the region was stationed at this location - within travelling distance of P&H as it turned out.
What is Misenum?
100
The Latin term for the main axial roads that made up the town grid.
What is decumanii?
100
This is the study of inscriptions.
What is epigraphy?
100
This Roman gent was studying Livy when Vesuvius really started to kick off.
Who is Pliny the Younger?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
Why did Pliny the Elder want to get closer to Vesuvius? There are TWO reasons...
200
The early Italic inhabitants of southern Italy, whose language was still spoken (alongside Latin) in Pompeii by a select few in AD 79.
What is Oscan?
200
Being close to the sea has advantages! You can manufacture plenty of this deliciously rancid fish sauce.
What is garum?
200
The Latin term for the minor roads on the town plan grid that intersected the main roads.
What is cardinini?
200
By studying the human remains at Pompeii, Estelle Lazar has concluded that some of the victims died of a lack of oxygen, more commonly referred to as this.
What is asphyxiation?
200
Herculaneum was hit by pyroclastic surges that were approximately this temperature.
What is 400 degrees C?
300
Pompeii was made a Roman colony after being on the losing side of this conflict.
What is the Social War?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
The veterans of which general were settled at Pompeii?
300
This type of volcanic rock is light, porous and spongy.
What is pumice?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
This type of rock & stone is formed when volcanic ash which has compacted.
300
Of the two towns, this town had fewer or more shallow rut marks on the roads.
What is Herculaneum?
300
The drawings or inscriptions that were scratched or painted onto the walls of P&H.
What is graffiti?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
Name one potential advantage AND disadvantage to the use of graffiti as a source.
300
The newly proposed dates for the eruption of Vesuvius falls in which months?
What is October or November?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! Can you name a piece of evidence that supports this idea of a later eruption?
400
Cumae and Neapolis were early colonies established in the Campanian region by this group of peoples.
What is the Greeks?
400
This author provides a description of Vesuvius before the eruption and of the Sarno Valley.
Who is Strabo?
400
Of the two towns, this town had a better drainage system.
What is Herculaneum?
400
These two authors refer to the earthquake of AD 62-63.
Who is Seneca and Tacitus?
400
This is the name of the active volcanic area of craters and boiling mud near Puteoli and Neapolis.
What is the Phelegraean Fields?
500
This warlike, Oscan-speaking tribe captured Capua and eventually the entire plain (including Pompeii & Herculaneum).
What is the Samnites?
500
This term means the slow subsidence or uplift of the ground; specifically in reference to the volcanic activity in the Campanian region.
What is bradyseism?
500
The Italian name for the main road in Pompeii that has been called the 'Street of Abundance.'
What is the Via dell'Abbondanza?
500
The fresco of Vesuvius with the god Bacchus and the "good god" agathodemone is in this house.
What is the House of the Centenary (1st century AD)?
500
This volcanologist believes that were at least six surges during the AD 79 eruption.
Who is Sigurdsson?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
Which surge/s killed the people at Herculaneum AND which surge/s killed the people at Pompeii?