Engineering and Science
What new building material did the Romans create?
What are the types of Roman art?
Fresco, Mosaic, Bass Relief,
What is a glaiator?
Was a armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman colosseum.
What language did the Roman speak ?
Latin
Who wrote the poem " From the Amores"
Ovid
What is aqueduct?
Was a channel used to carry water from mountain to cities
What is a fresco ?
A type of painting that was extremely large or bright mural that was done on wet plaster.
What is the Colosseum?
It was a huge arena in Ancient Rome that was used to entertain Roman citizens with man vs man, man vs animal and animal vs animal. It was created using Roman arches.
What is civil law?
Civil law is legal system based on written code of laws.
What did Roman builders learn to combine and what did they create.
Learned how to combine arches to create vaults
Names two way living conditions improved because of the Romans.
Central heating
Sanitiation
What are the main differences between a bass-relief and mosaic?
A bass relief was a sculpture that had images projected on a flat surface.
A mosaic is a image that is formed by arranging little colored tiles ,glass or stones onto a small surface
What is a chariot and what where they used for?
A chariot is type of carriage driven by a charioteer usually using horses to provide rapid motive power. Use in races to entertain,transports for the army and hunting.
What is Satire
A style of writing that pokes fun of people of society.
Who was Ovid?
Ovid was a Roman poet. He wrote poems about the mythology of Roman among other things.
Describe what Galen did in the field of medicine.
Galen described the valves of the heart and noted the differences between the arteries and the veins.
Explain a sunken relief.
A sunken relief is a type of bass-relief. Also it is when the carving is sunken below the level of the surrounding surfaces and it is contained within a sharply incised contour line that frames it with a powerful line of shadow.
Explain a Roman Arch.
Roman arches were the foundation of Rome's architectural mastery and mass expanse of building,longer and better aqueducts. Leads to modern day architecture.
What are the five Romance languages?
Romanian, Spanish , Portuguese, Italian and French
Compare and Contrast high relief to low relief.
Low relief is where the sculpture projects only slightly from the background surface. Where high relief is where the sculpture projects at least half or more of its natural circumstance from the background.
What year did Galen live?
100 AD
What is the material used to create mosaics called
Tesserae
How many spectators could the Circus Maximus hold at one time?
150,000 spectators
What does "E pluribus unum" mean.
Out of many one.
Explain Roman philosophy
Romans were heavily influenced by Greek philosophy. Some word that commonly used are morality, argument proof. It was also used by Roman leaders when talking to the public.