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Latin 8 Culture Review I Answer the following questions or fill in the blanks. 1. What year was Rome founded? _____________ 2. Who was the first king of Rome? ______________ 3. Who was the first king’s twin brother? _______________ Their father was the god __________. Into what river were they abandoned? ______________ 4. Rome was built on ________ hills. 5. The ______________ hill is where many emperors built their palaces. 6. The Temple of Jupiter Maximus was built on the ____________ hill. 7. The ____________ river runs through Rome. 8. The Romans traced their lineage back to _______________, a Trojan warrior. His mother was the goddess ________________. The Roman epic The Aeneid about the founding of the Roman race was written by the Roman poet ___________________. 9. The first form of government was the __________________. 10. The republic began in _____________B.C. 11. The first Emperor of Rome was __________________. He was the adopted son of the most famous Roman general, _____________________. This general conquered France, then known as, _______________. This general was killed on this date: __________________________, known as the ________ _____ _____________. 12. Mt. __________________ erupted in _______ A.D. and buried the cities ___________________ and ____________________. 13. ________________ the elder wrote letters about the eruption of this Mt. 14. The Punic wars were fought between Rome and this city: __________________. The most famous general of this city was ________________, who once led elephants over the Alps to invade Italy. 15. This was the gladiator-slave that led a slave revolt ending in 71BC. 16. The stilus, tabella, abacus, and ludus are all associated with Roman _____________. 17. The paedagogus was a (usually Greek) __________________ that accompanied a boy to school and was responsible for looking after his education. 18. This structure was used for chariot racing in Rome ________________________. 19. This building was used to house gladiator fights and mock naval battles _________________________. 20. This temple, dedicated to all the gods, was noted for its huge dome ___________________. 21. This was the structure from which the politicians made their speeches in Rome. ___________________ 22. The center for business, political, and economic life in ancient Rome was the _____________________. 23. The __________________ were the public baths in ancient Rome. 24. These structures brought water into Rome __________________. 25. Roman male citizens had _______ (number) names. They were called (in order): __________________________________________ 26. The daughter of a Roman citizen named with the feminized form of her father’s _____________________. 27. Men, women, and children all wore a simple garment called a _________________. 28. Boys and high ranking government officials wore this special toga with a purple stripe: ___________________________ 29. Upon coming of age, boys gave up the necklace called a ____________ that had been given to them at their naming ceremony, and took on the toga of manhood called the ______________________. 30. Roman matrons (married women) wore this strapped dress over their tunics: _______________. 31. ___________________ was the common word for shoes. 32. The Roman city or townhouse was called a ________________. The Roman country house was called a __________________. The apartment buildings that took up entire Roman blocks were called ______________________. 33. The kitchen was the __________________. The dining room was the _________________. The main room in the front of the house was the _________________. The pool for rainwater in this main room was the _________________. The skylight was the ___________________. The bedroom was the _______________. The master’s study was the ___________________. The entrance passage way was the __________________. Shops in the front of houses or in the forum were called __________________. The back courtyard with gardens was the ___________________. 34. Paterfamilias was the male __________________. Patria potestas is the phrase used to describe the ______________ the paterfamilias had over the members of his family. 35. The Roman god of lightning and thunder, also the king of the gods, was _____________ (Gk: Zeus) 36. The Roman goddess of marriage and women, also the queen of the gods, was _______________ (Gk: Hera) 37. The Roman god of the sea was ________________ (Gk: Poseidon) 38. The Roman god of the underworld was ________________ (Gk: Hades) 39. The Roman goddess of grain and the harvest was __________________ (Gk: Demeter) 40. The Roman goddess of war, wisdom, and weaving was __________________ (Gk: Athena) 41. The Roman god of war was _______________ (Gk: Ares) 42. The Roman goddess of love and beauty was ______________ (Gk: Aphrodite) 43. The Roman goddess of hearth and home was ______________ (Gk: Hestia) 44. The Roman god of sun, light, music, medicine, etc was ______________ (Gk: Apollo) 45. The Roman god of wine, merriment, and theater was ______________ (Gk: Dionysus) 46. The Roman god of love was __________________ (Gk: Eros) 47. The queen of the Underworld, wife of Hades, daughter of Demeter: ___________________ (Gk: Persephone) 48. The messenger of the gods, and the god of travelers and thieves: ___________________ (Gk: Hermes) 49. The blacksmith of the gods: ________________ (Gk: Hephaestus) 50. The Roman goddess of the moon and hunt: __________________ (Gk: Artemis) 51. Father of Iuppiter and king of the Titans, god of the harvest: ___________________ (Gk: Chronos) 52. The Roman god of doorways, shown with two faces, is ________________. 53. Iuno’s bird is ______________________. 54. Jupiter turned Io into a _______________ in a failed attempt to hide her from Juno. 55. The demigod ____________________ whose parents were _______________ and the mortal Alcmene, performed 12 labors. 56. The story of the kidnapping of Proserpina explained the ______________. 57. The three-headed dog of the underworld: _____________________. 58. ___________________ ferried the dead across the river Styx. 59. The household gods were known as the ________________ and were worshiped in the household shrine called a _____________________. 60. ___________________ sprang fully grown from her father’s head. 61. Apollo loved ___________________, but she did not love him back and became a __________________. 62. The festival held in December in honor of the god Saturn: __________________ 63. The gods and goddesses lived on ______________________. 64. The queen of Carthage in The Aeneid was _____________. 65. A Roman bride wore the flammeum, which was an flame (orange) colored __________________. 66. Ubi tu Gaius, Ego Gaia were words spoken by Roman ___________________. 67. This most famous of Roman roads, was known as the Regina Viarum or queen of roads: ______________________ 68. Mare nostrum is the Latin for which body of water: ________________________ 69. The main road through the Roman Forum was the _____________________. 70. Label the pictures below: