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Vocab
100
What is a mosaic?
What is a design formed with small tiles of glass.
100
The art of giving speeches.
What is oratory.
100
True or False: Gladiators were used to bore a crowd?
What is false
100
True or false: In the early years of the Roman republic, there were no written laws.
What is true.
100
A design formed with small tiles of glass
What is mosaic
200
Showed beautiful landscapes, events from mythology and history. These were usually painted in public buildings and wealthy homes.
What is brightly colored murals.
200
Rome's most famous orator.
What is Cicero.
200
For what reason did gladiators fight in an arena at first?
What is to stage funerals.
200
The year in which the law code was made
What is 400s B.C.
200
Romance Languages
What is languages that developed from Latin.
300
Types of Romance Languages.
What is Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese.
300
Wrote the Aeneid.
What is Virgil.
300
What does the word gladiator mean?
What is swordsman
300
What the laws were based off of
What is custom and tradition.
300
The art of giving speeches
What is oratory
400
Stood in markets and temples, representing gods, great heroes, and important people.
What is Roman statues.
400
Famous Roman philosopher
What is Seneca.
400
What kinds of people were usually gladiators?
What is slaves or criminals
400
The Twelve Tables
What is the name of the law code.
400
Satires
What is works of literature that make fun of their subject
500
True or False: Latin was not the spoken language of much of the western empire.
What is false.
500
Author of Almagest
What is Ptolemy
500
What kind of event took place in the Circus Maximus?
What is chariot racing.
500
Family relation, property, inheritance, (etc.)
What is what the laws were relating to.
500
Men who fought one another as part of a public entertainment.
What is gladiators.