Arches and Alleyways | Domes + Dorms | Forum & Food | Scrolls and Shows | Columns + Construction |
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What is the name of rest stops along the ancient Roman roads
mutationes
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What is the first floor of Insulae often used for
Shops and restaurants
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What is the name of where did lower-class Roman citizens eat
Themopolia
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What is the name of who founded the Bibliotheca Ulpia
Emporer Trajan
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What is the column styles originated from Greece
Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
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What is the name of what sits adjacent to Roman roads
aggers
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What is the word used for apartments in Rome mean when translated to English
Island
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What is the shape was the Temple of Vestia
Circle
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How many Roman ampitheaters are there
230
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What is the column styles that started in Rome
Tuscan, Composite
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What is the most important stone within a Roman arch
the Keystone
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What is the name of the biggest Dome in the city of Rome
Pantheon
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What is how Roman soldiers pay for their meals
Mainly scavenging, but some grain rations were provided by docking some salary.
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What is whos comedies were the earliest latin literary works
Plautus
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What is the main materials used in the construction of Ancient Rome
Marble, limestone, brick, concrete, and wood
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What is the name of the civilization that first used the arch
Mesopotamian
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What is name two of the three main types of building that domes were used on
baths houses, palaces, mosoleums and Churches
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What is How many low-class dining establishments would occupy an area equivalent to the average Manhattan city block
4.5
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What is a silent show in which the actors used gesture and movement, not avoiding bluntness and cruelty
Pantomime
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What is the main column order seen throughout Elon’s campus
Tuscan
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What is the mathematical formula for an archway
Weight = Mass x Gravity, or w=mg
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What is name five of the six kinds of domes.
onion, geodesic, oval, saucer, sail, umbrella
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What is the name five prominent structures in the Roman Forum
The Senate house, or Curia, the Temple of Saturn, the Arch of Titus, the Temple of Vestia, the Rostra, the Temple of Castor and Pollux, and and the Via Sacra
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What is how many spectators could the large theatre at Pompeii seat
~ 4000 spectators
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What is the name of the spiral design that appears on the capital at the top of an Ionic column
Volutes
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