Assignment for WEDNESDAY MAY 6

salvete omnes!

You are invited to take a virtual walk through this YouTube video reconstruction of Ancient Rome and answer the Q & A below.

valete!

Magister Antonius



Rome Reborn

ROME REBORN:

Q & A

1. What is the name of the river that divides the city of Rome into two parts?

2. To whom is the major temple on the Capitoline Hill dedicated which represents the State “cult” worship?

3. What year is this reconstruction of Rome meant to represent and why?

            a.

            b.

4. Who was the emperor at this time?

5. What did the emperor do immediately after this period?

6. What English word do we get from the Palatine Hill and why?

            a.

            b.

7. What is the link between the location of the Imperial Palace and the Circus Maximus?

8. What events took place at the Circus Maximus?

            a.

            b.

            c.

            d.

            e.

            f.

9. What was the “Aqua Claudia”?

10. What design feature of the aqueducts meant the water flowed gently and without interruption?

11. What was an example of the ways that the emperors provided for the wellbeing of the population?

12. What emperor built the Colosseum and in what year?

            a.

            b.

13. What name was given to Nero’s palace and how much land did it occupy in the centre of Rome?

14. What was the actual name for the Colosseum and why was it called that?

            a.

            b.

15. What gave the Colosseum that name?

16. What “triumph” did the Arch of  Constantine commemorate?

17. What groups were “relegated” to the highest seating levels of the Colosseum?

            a.

            b.

            c.

18. What kinds of events happened at the Colosseum?

            a.

            b.

            c.

19. What is the biggest temple near the Colosseum built by the emperor Hadrian?

20. What is the Latin word for “leisure” and what is the Latin word for “not leisure” or “business”?

            a.

            b.

21. In the Forum what was the large civic building used as a “Courthouse” for hearing legal cases?

22. What does the narrator quote as being the American equivalent of the Roman Forum?

23. What happened in the open space of the Forum?

            a.

            b.

24. What was the main function of the Campus Martius?

25. What was the purpose of the Pantheon?

26. Of what materials was the Pantheon built?

27. What is the hole in the dome of the Pantheon called?

28. What was the significance of sunlight coming through the hole in the dome on April 21^st?

29. How many buildings are estimated to have been in Rome at that time?

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30. What was the estimated population of Rome at that time?