1. Ancient City of Rome

2. You are presenting as a group today. Everyone must stand in front of the class to do their part. Speak loud and clear Have everyone's assignment before you come up to do your presentation Anyone who is talking, not paying attention or using their IPODS will be dock points for the ENTIRE group. Take NOTES as these are going to be on your test which is next class period.

3. Rome was the city of the God’s with over ½ million people. Inside the city were 1,000 temples, libraries, playing fields, gymnasium and hot and cold pools The city of Rome had its civic engineers who planned the cities with Aqueducts, (which included 14 of them) as well as planned roads and a sewer system.

4. Some consider the Roman Architecture to be the greatest in the world. However they borrowed almost all their forms and building techniques from earlier civilizations. They changed then around and in the 1 st century AD they had created a daring and unique style that influenced the western world.

5. The Arch

8. The Flavian Amphitheater was built on a swampy lake, which was drained. It was started by the emperor Vespasian in 70 AD and inaugurated in 80 Ad by the Emperor Titus. It is an amphitheater (double Greek theatre that is an elongated circle. The Colosseum was covered with marble.

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20. It originally was a marsh, but the Romans drained the area and turned it into a center of political and social activity. The Forum was the marketplace of Rome and also the business district and civic center. It was expanded to include temples, a senate house and law courts. When the Roman Empire fell, the Forum became forgotten, buried and was used as a cattle pasture during the Middle Ages.

30. Circus Maximums ---- Latin for largest Arena