The Romans Ancient Civilisation outside Ireland Horrible Histories

The Romans! Ancient Civilisation outside Ireland

• Horrible Histories ‘The News at When’

What we will cover • Size of the Roman Empire • Houses and family • Entertainment • Public structures

• ‘Circa’ means around or about. • Example: Circa 500 BC means about 500 BC.

Empire at it’s strongest circa 117 AD Rome was an empire

Housing • Rich Romans • Lived in a Domus • Normally had two houses. • A Villa just outside the city. • A country villa well away from the city. • Glass windows • Poorer Romans • Lived in an Insulae • Poor Romans lived in flats called insulae. • 3 or 4 floors. • In a little room lived a whole family.

Entertainment • Amphitheatres: used for gladiator fights and mock sea battles • Circuses where chariots were pulled by horses • Theatres where plays were staged. These could comedies or tradgedies.

Circus Maximus

Gladiators –Fought in an Ampitheatre! Large fork, called a trident Net to trap opponent Gladius, a gladiator’s sword Greaves to protect the legs

Baths

Forum (Market Square)

Roads All roads lead to Rome! Q What wa one? t s e l i sam

Aquaduct r? Q What w d fo e s u s i as th

Public Structures 1. Public Baths 2. Roads 3. Aqueducts 4. The Forum

Roman Soldiers • Largest and most disciplined. • Why did it need to be? • Divided into 30 Legions (= 150, 000 soldiers!) • Professional army.

Washing Line Game

The Neolithic Period 4000 BC The Middle ages. Sometimes knon as the dark ages. Establishment of Rome. 700 BC The Iron Age and the Celts Circa 300 BC 476 AD The Fall of Rome 500 AD-circa 1400 15 th Century The Renaissance