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| Why did Roman scientists study the stars other than just to know about them? |
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| Why did Roman scientists study plants and animals? |
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| To learn how to produce better crops and meat |
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| Most of the greatest doctors in the Roman Empire were what? |
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| Who was Galen? What did he do? |
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| Greek surgeon who made many discoveries about the body |
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| What structures were built by Romans over 2000 years ago and are still used today? |
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| What important material was developed by Romans to help structures last? |
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| What type of design was used to build their roads? |
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| What other type of design, other than layers, did Romans use to make structures last? |
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| What was a channel used to carry water from mountains into cities called? |
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| What is a set of arches that supports the roof of a building called? |
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| What was Roman architecture largely based on? |
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| What Roman structure was used to hold fights between gladiators? |
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| What three things were artists of the Roman Empire known for? |
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| Mosaics, paintings, and statues |
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| What were mosaics and paintings used for? |
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| To decorate Roman buildings |
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| Most Roman paintings were frescoes. What is a fresco? |
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| A type of painting done on wet plaster |
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| When artists painted portraits of people, what were they trying to show? |
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| Their subject’s personality |
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| Why were the Roman’s copies of Greek statues so important? |
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| Without them the world would know little about many Greek masterpieces |
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| What is the great epic about the founding of Rome called? Who wrote it? |
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| What was Ovid known for writing? |
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| Poems about Roman mythology |
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| What is a style of writing that pokes fun at people or society called? |
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| What was the language of ancient Rome? |
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| What is the other language that the people in the east spoke? |
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| What are languages that developed from Latin called? |
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| What are the main Romance Languages? |
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| Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian |
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| What is the motto of the United States? What does it mean? |
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| e pluribus unum. “Out of many, one” |
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| Roman law inspired a system called civil law. What is civil law? |
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| A legal system based on a written code of laws |
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