poet who wrote "Aeneid" and tried to show that Rome was as heroic as Greece

picture made from chips of colored stone or glass

application of science and math to develop useful structures and machines

bridgelike stone structure that carried water from the hills into Roman cities

An astronomer-mathematician who proposed his theory that Earth was at the center of the universe

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Chapter 5, Section 3

Word	Definition
Virgil	poet who wrote "Aeneid" and tried to show that Rome was as heroic as Greece
Satirize	make fun of
Mosaic	picture made from chips of colored stone or glass
Engineering	application of science and math to develop useful structures and machines
Aqueduct	bridgelike stone structure that carried water from the hills into Roman cities
Ptolemy	An astronomer-mathematician who proposed his theory that Earth was at the center of the universe