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Rome ch.32 vocab
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rome-D | Rome was located in Italy, which includes islands and a peninsula in southern Europe. The Italian peninsula is shaped a lot like a boot. It reaches into the Mediterranean Sea - ready to kick the island of Sicily. |
| Myth-D | (1) a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.(2)a widely held, but false belief or idea. |
| Etruscans-D | Etruscan were an important group, that influenced the development of Roman culture. They built some city states and conquered |
| Latins -D | People from the ancient country of Latium, an area that is now the country of Italy. |
| Palatine -D | One of the seven hills in ancient Rome |
| Cuniculus-D | An irrigation system invented by the Etruscans |
| Gladiator-D | A person trained to fight another person to the death for public entertainment |
| Rome-E | :Rome is a city in Italy that we now call “The Ancient City of Rome.” It also goes out to the Mediterranean sea. Rome is a peninsula. a peninsula is a piece of land that is surrounded water on three sides. |
| Myth-E | a myth is like a legend or a tale, that is not real that gets passed on through generations. |
| Etruscans-E | no one knows exactly where they came from. They built some city-states and conquered others. By 600 B.C.E., they ruled much of northern and central Italy, including the town of Rome. Romans copied what the Etruscans and the Greeks made and made it bette |
| Latins-E | The first Romans were Latiums, they had several groups who had invaded Italy sometime around before 1000 B.C.E. |
| Palatine-E | The Latin tribe built their village that eventually became rome, on Palatine, a hill in central Italy. |
| Cuniculus-E | it was a long underground trench. Romans used trenches to irrigate land. |
| Gladiator-E | In Roman stadiums, thousands of slaves died fighting as gladiators. They fought against each other or wild animals. |