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Ancient City of Rome
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stand in front of the class to do their part.
Speak loud and clear
Have everyone's assignment before you come up to do
your presentation
Anyone who is talking, not paying attention or
using their IPODS will be dock points for the
ENTIRE group.
Take NOTES as these are going to be on your test
which is next class period.
 Rome was the city of the God’s with over ½
million people .
 Inside the city were 1,000 temples, libraries,
playing fields, gymnasium and hot and cold
pools
 The city of Rome had its civic engineers who
planned the cities with Aqueducts, (which
included 14 of them) as well as planned roads
and a sewer system.
 Some consider the Roman Architecture to
be the greatest in the world.
 However they borrowed almost all their
forms and building techniques from earlier
civilizations.
 They changed then around and in the 1st
century AD they had created a daring and
unique style that influenced the western
world.
 The Arch
 The Flavian Amphitheater was built on a swampy lake,
which was drained.
 It was started by the emperor Vespasian in 70 AD and
inaugurated in 80 Ad by the Emperor Titus. It is an
amphitheater (double Greek theatre that is an
elongated circle. The Colosseum was covered with
marble.
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It originally was a marsh, but the
Romans drained the area and turned
it into a center of political and social
activity. The Forum was the
marketplace of Rome and also the
business district and civic center.
It was expanded to include temples, a
senate house and law courts. When
the Roman Empire fell, the Forum
became forgotten, buried and was
used as a cattle pasture during the
Middle Ages.
Circus Maximums ---- Latin for largest Arena