•Arch

•Dome

•Concrete

•Bridges

Architecture and Technology:

Pantheon: Temple for the Roman gods

Colosseum: Arena for gladiator fights and mock battles

Circus Maximus: Track for races, horse/chariot

The Forum: main market square and meeting place

                                                                 

Roman Bathhouses: public, every city had one

Roman Roads: built to every part of the empire to move armies and help trade

Aqueducts: carried water into the city, inverted siphon

Greco-Roman Culture:

The Romans admired the Greeks and copied them.

This is greatly seen in art and literature.

Epicurus: Epicureanism

The way to gain happiness is to free the body from pain and free the mind from fear.

•Philosophy

Zeno: Stoicism

Encouraged virtue, duty, endurance and courage. Pain and pleasure were unimportant

•Poetry

Virgil= Aeneid, similar to Homer’s epics

Ovid= comic poems

•History

Livy= History of Rome, mythical

Tacitus= more factual, showed the good and bad of Rome

Art:

Roman art was more realistic than Greek art

•Bas-relief

•Mosaics

•Frescoes: Paintings on the walls

Latin:

Romance Languages (from Rome) such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian are all based on Latin.

There are Latin roots in many of the words and phrases we use today.

Roman Numerals:

Seen on faces of clocks, movie credits, outlines, etc.

I=1 V=5

X=10 L=50

C=100 D=500

M=1000

Julian Calendar:

12 months of 30-31 days

Except February

Leap Years

Emperors changed names of months as they wished.

July= Julius Caesar, August= Augustus

Law:•All persons had the right to equal treatment under the law.

•A person was considered innocent until proven guilty.

•The burden of proof rested with the accuser rather than the accused.

•A person should be punished only for actions, not thoughts.

•Any law that seemed unreasonable or grossly unfair could be set aside.

•On one side of the index card, draw and color a picture of something/someone you would have seen on a visit to Rome during the Empire

•On the other side, write a message to a friend, parent, or favorite history teacher describing with detail at least 5 people, things, or events you saw, heard, or experienced while visiting the Roman Empire.