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Ancient History

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Amphitheatre   oval arena  
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Atrium   open central courtyard or hall of a house  
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Basilica   public building that contained the law courts and business activities  
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Caldarium   hot bathroom  
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Comitium   building for town meetings  
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Curia Chamber   building where the council met  
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Forum   main commercial area of the city  
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Freedmen/women   slaves who had been given their freedom  
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Frigidarium   cold bathroom  
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Fulleries   shops where fabrics were washed and bleached  
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Hoplomachus   heavily armoured gladiator; known as Samnite before Augustus' rule  
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Hypocaust   system of flues beneath the floor that distributed heat from a furnace  
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Insula/e   cheap apartment house/blocks of housing, shops, restaurants and factories  
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Myrmillo   gladiator with Gallic weapons  
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Palaestra   open exercise area in the public baths  
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Peristyle   courtyard encircled by a line of columns  
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Pyroclastic surge   surge of rock and lava caused by the explosion of a volcanic eruption  
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Sacellum   chapel  
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Tabularium   building where government records were stored  
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Thermopolia   bar or tavern  
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