Rome

  • Big Ideas:
     -          Leisure time activities and entertainment serve an important role in society.
     -     Architecture reflects values of societies.
     -     Societies’ concerns for economic, religious, and security needs were reflected in their architecture.

    Learning Goals:

       You will be able to:

    -          identify the types of Roman architecture, and understand how architecture reflected the values of Roman citizens (aqueducts, roads, Colosseum, Circus Maximus, Hadrian’s Wall, catacombs, forum, etc.)

    -          explain how and why the Colosseum and gladiator fights, Circus Maximus, and bath houses were forms of leisure time activities

     

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