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The Romans

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Roman Topic
EMPERORS
BATHS
HADRIANs WALL
HOMES
GODS
SPORT
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Roman Emperors

• How many Emperors were the?
• There were a whopping 125 Emperors, wow! Maybe
  even more. One of
• those brilliant leaders was Augustus, Augustus
  meant dignified. He was
• one of the most successful leaders in roman
  times. He is also one of the
• single most important figures in history.
• Before you became an Emperor you were sometimes a
  General,
• a general is an extremely important person in the
  army.
• Augustus died at the age of 76 years old, in
  roman days
• 76 was a good age to live too. Not many people
  lived
• to that age! His wife unfortunately killed
  Augustus
• because she wanted her son too be Emperor.
• There was also an Emperor called Hadrian.
• Hadrian was king after Augustus this is a
• picture of the ruins of Hadrians villa
• This is Augustus.
• What did they do?

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Roman Emperors

• What did roman emperors do?
• The Roman emperors were the most powerful
• people in ancient Rome. They were often full
• of good energy good ideas, but were a bit
• crazy. They ordered their builders to make huge
• arenas palaces and aqueducts and would decide
• which lands to conquer and which people to
  capture.
• The emperors could give rewards but also punish
  people.
• Some made very strange decisions, like giving a
  horse an
• important public job.
• Many emperors were just and fair and helped make
  
• Rome a very powerful place and the centre of the
• ancient world.
• The senate, which was the government or the
  people in
• charge, didnt have the power the emperor had.
  But

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ROMAN Emperors

• What clothes did
• Emperors wear?
• The Romans used woven
• material or textiles for
• clothing. A plant called flax
• was used for making different
• materials. And it was grown
• in Egypt. But silk and cotton
• were very expensive.
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Hadrians Wall

• What was it used for?
• Brigantines gave
• Romans trouble so
• they built Hadrians
• Wall to protect them
• from fighters. Then
• raiders came from
• Scotland to attack.
• What does it look like
• now?

• Hadrians Wall had started off with 2 million
  tonnes of stone. The soldiers did their work so
  well that most of Hadrians still stands today.

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Hadrians Wall

• How long is it?
• Hadrians Wall is 115km
• long, which is the same
• as 80miles long and 6
• metres high. Also it is 3
• metres wide. It linked 14
• forts and went from the east
• of Tynemouth to the west of
• Maid Bowness. It was
• fortified every mile with a
• 100 men.
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Who made it? 9,500 men in the army made Hadrians
Wall on the border of Scotland and England. The
army was ruined by Caesar Trayan Hadrian
Augustus. It took 8 years to build Hadrians
Wall.
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What is Hadrians wall made of ? Hadrians wall
was made of stone or turf and it is the longest
wall in the world .It stretches across Britain
120kms long. How tall is Hadrians wall It is
7m tall and 3m thick and 4m high. In places it
also took two million. Tonnes of stone to build
Hadrian wall. And 5 years to make Hadrian s
Wall.
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HADRIANS WALL

• How many people
• used Hadrians Wall?
• The army used Hadrians Wall and
• there were 5000 men in the legion
• at Hadrians Wall, so 5000 people
• used it. Hadrians Wall was a fort
• and linked 14 forts.

Archaeologists investigating Hadrians Wall
looked at many different types of evidence, to
build up a picture of what life was like there
for the Roman soldiers and the Britons who lived
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Roman Gods

• WHO WAS THE MOST
• IMPORTANT GOD?
• The most import god of all was Jupiter god of
  thunder lightning. He had a father called
  Saturn he was god of farming,
• Jupiter also had a son called Apollo
• he was god of the sun god of the arts.
• Juno was Jupiters wife she was the second most
  important god

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ROMAN GODS What did the gods look like?

Januis had two heads one looking back at the old
and the other at the new. Diana looked like a man
with a carpet in his hand, she was always in
gold. Neptune was god of the sea he looked
like a gorilla and had a long toga. He also had
a black fury beard and a trident that he used for
fighting. Jupiter looked like a bushy lion
about to fight with his stick. On his face he had
a moustache connected to beard.
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Gods and Goddesses Who were the gods? One of
the gods was called Isis another god called
Mithras. Vesta was the Goddesses of heath
fire. Janus had two faces he was a god. Each
house had its own god who watches over all the
family Members they where called the
lar. Neptune he was the god of the sea, Mercury
he was the god of trade and communications.
There are 3 gods for the same power there
names was Ceres, Apollo and Venus. Saturn was
Jupiters, Neptune and Mercury father there was
twelve gods called Dii Consente. Saturn Jupiter,
Neptune and Mercury killed there father Saturn.
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Roman Baths How many people were allowed in the
Roman Baths? About 250 people were allowed in
the baths. They went in naked but sometimes they
wore a sheet that looked like a white skirt.
The baths werent just to wash in. you
could talk to your friends and play games.
There were seven baths in one.
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The Baths
What did they wear in the Baths ? The Romans had
a bath in most large cities. If they had
precious items they would put it in a gold
object called a money purse. Men and woman
changed in the same room. While they bathed they
could talk to their friends.
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How many baths did Romans have in one bath
house? Some cities had separate baths. In other
cities you had to share, men went in the mornings
and women in the afternoon.
Roman Baths
In the city of Bath there is a Roman bath house
which is still standing. Local people can visit
it and many tourists come every year from all
over the world. Romans bathed naked. Instead of
using soap Romans used oil they then scraped it
of with a tool called a strigel.
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What did they do at the baths? The best thing of
the day is having a bath. Romans had one every
day. They washed with a strigel. A strigel was a
cleaning instrument which they took with them
every time they went to the baths.
They washed, drank and ate at the baths. As well
as eating, drinking and washing they had
entertainers. The entertainers did shows for the
Romans. Rich children were allowed in the Baths
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What were the roofs like? The roofs were made of
tiles and were a pinky red colour. Rich people
had holes in their roof and in summer, it let in
a cool breeze, but in winter, it let in wind and
rain.
Roman roof tiles
What went on in the kitchens? In the kitchens,
the slaves did all the work. The kitchen was
often next to the lavatory so that the waste went
in the same drain. The slaves cut up the food and
served it. Ovens came in all different shapes
and sizes. Supplies were kept in pottery jars.
Big jars were called amphorae. Dead animal skins
were hung from the kitchen walls for decoration.

A Roman kitchen
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What kind of houses did rich and poor Romans
have? Rich people had luxurious houses but poor
Romans lived in flats. Some flats were 3 or 4
storeys high, were narrow, made of wood and often
collapsed. Rich Romans had huge gardens which
sometimes had birds in. How did the central
heating work? The Romans invented a radical
central heating system. The Roman central heating
had a furnace that produced hot air. Then the hot
air travelled into the ducts which are under the
floor so the floor heats up.
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What were Roman houses like?
The houses of the rich were very luxurious and
some houses had their bedrooms on the ground
floor. The Romans had shops in their houses or
flats and rich Roman people flats were one to two
stories high but poor Roman flats were three to
four stories high! Some Romans lived in a
praetorium which was like a huge house but most
Romans lived in blocks of flats called insulae.
Some Roman houses had mosaics around in certain
rooms like this one below.
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Why did the Romans use gardens?
The Romans grew plums, pears, oranges, apples
and trees. Roman slaves knock olives from trees
and put them in there baskets. Big round jars are
there to store olives or oil inside. Wealthy
people grew herbs, herb give flavour to their
food.
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What happened at the Amphitheatre?
The gladiators often fought to the death at the
amphitheatre. A Murmilolin had a sword and a
shield. A Samnite had a sword, shield and armour.
A Thracian had a round shield and a curved
dagger. A Retiairus had a long fork and a net.
Panthers, Lions, Hyenas, bears, rhinos,
elephants, zebras, giraffes, bores, deer, horses
and snakes were the animals used in the arenas.
The greatest amphitheatre was called the
Coliseum it could hold 50,000 spectators. The
gladiators were slaves captured by the Romans and
if they won five games they got their freedom.
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What did gladiators do and who were they?
Gladiators were ordinary people, captured by the
Romans. They fought each other until one of them
was wounded, if the people in the audience wanted
him killed they would all put there thumbs down,
but if they wanted him to live they would put
there thumbs up. Gladiators fought duels to the
death to entertain the Romans. They were highly
trained, like athletes, in gladiator schools and
specialized in different types of weapons and
styles of fighting. To make the fights more
exciting the gladiators use a variety of weapons.
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Chariot Racing
The Romans had a stadium where the chariot races
were held, the crowds bet on a team, they also
cheered them on. The chariots were different
colours like blue, red, white or green. Chariots
were very dangerous they turned over and crashed
very easily. The Romans loved sports. The
winning team won a money prize. The Romans were
sometimes killed playing sport. The racers were
allowed to crash in to each other. The Romans
also play ball games outside or inside.
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What games did they play?
The Romans use to play marbles. The marbles were
small and shiny and colourful, they also had
different shapes.
Sheep knuckles were used in another game called
cluedo, when you throw the dice you move to
another place on the game board and they played
with dice counters and a spinning top. The tops
were long and thick at the bottom and a sharp
point to make it spin.
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