Diapositiva 1

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The Romans
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• The Romans arrived to Hispania in 218 b.C through
  the Mediterranean Sea. They disembarked in
  Emporium (north of Catalonia). Barcino
  (Barcelona) was founded in 15 b.C by the emperor
  Agust.
• The city was built between Collserola Mountain
  and the Mediterranean sea.
• Via Augusta was and still is a main street in the
  city.
• The city has got the square structure usual of
  the Roman colonies.
• The Romans came from Italy.

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Domus and Insula
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Shop

• The shops (Tabernae) were in the principal
  streets of Rome and Barcino, in the front part of
  the houses (Domus) or of the residential blocks
  (Insulae).
• The bread was very important in the Roman diet
  and there were many cake shops in the city. As
  well as it is now in the Spanish, Mediterranean
  diet.

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Pub

• The pubs were very popular places to eat and
  drink, but also to play. These pubs also served
  food. The caupona were offering housing, and
  the term popina covered a wide range of
  establishments.
• They served wine mixed with water, herbs,
  honey or resin, appetizers, olives, soups with
  bread, seafood and meat stews.

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Restaurant

• The restaurants were decorated with geometrical
  designs in yellow, red and blue.
• Outside the restaurants there were benches in
  order that the clients could sit down to take a
  fresh drink or some fast snack.

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The Clothes of the Romans

• The clothes of the Romans changed if it was
  winter or summer.
• It could be
• Toga pura
• Toga praetexta
• Toga picta
• Toga purpura

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• Women wore a long tunic. In the public acts
  they wore a long garment called stola, of
  different colors, embroidered in the ends and
  held around the body with a belt.

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(I) Praenomen

• It is the first name, generally the first-born
  one had the same as his father.
• The most common ones Marcus, Aulus, Caius,
  Lucius, Quintus, Sextus, Tiberius, Titus

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(II) Nomen

• For us it is the first surname, and refers to
  the family in which one was born.
• Eg Cornelius (the family Cornèlia), Aemilius
  (the family Emília)

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(III)Cognomen

• It is a second surname, it was a type of
  nickname that was related to the trade.
• Eg Cicero (Cigró), Claudius ( coix)

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The Coin

• The cheapest system was based on an interchange
  of products. The metals used in coins were
  copper, argent and gold.
• The most interesting coins were
• - bronze las
• - silver sesterci and denari
• - gold lauri

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The food
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More representative Emperors

• Augusto
• Tiberio
• Calígula
• Claudio
• Nerón
• Trajano
• Adriano
• Dioclesiano
• Constantino

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The buildings of a city

• In roman cities we find different
  constructions

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The Forum

• It was the public square of the city.
• It had a rectangular shape.
• It was placed between the principal streets,
  cardo and the decumanus.
• In Barcelona we find it in St. Jaume Square.

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The Temple

• It was built dedicated to the worship of a
  divinity. It was a building of rectangular floor
  surrounded by columns.

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The Basilica

• It was the place where the courts
  administrated justice and bought bandages of
  goods.

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The Theatre

• They performed dramatic representations. It was
  a building of semicircular floor.

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The Amphitheatre

• It was the building where they disputed the
  struggles of gladiators and animals. It was a
  building of elliptical form.

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The Circus

• It was the building where they fought with
  carriages.

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The Domus

It is a rich family house of ground floor
organized around an open air yard called atrium.
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The Insulae

• They were blocks of renting flats for the
  poor people.

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The Terms

• They were the public baths.
• They had three rooms with swimming pools
  Frigidarium,
• Tepidarium and Caldarium.

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The Necropolis

• The Necropolis was the cemetery of roman
  cities. The graves were situated on the track
  that arrived to the city.

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The Aqueduct

• The aqueduct was the channel that brought the
  drinkable water to houses in the city.
• Barcino (Barcelona) had two aqueducts that
  took the water outside the city.

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The Wall

• Barcino was surrounded by ta wall. The wall
  was built in the I century but in century IV and
  V it was restored.

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The Education

• PRIMARY (7-12 years old) The teacher taught
  reading, writing and also mathematics.
• SECONDARY (13-14 or 15 years old) The teacher
  taught readind,to understand texts of the great
  classical authors. But they also learnt history,
  mathematics, mythology, music
• SUPERIOR (17-20 years old) The teacher taught
  oratory (speech) to pupils in order that the
  boys could behave and speak with facility in the
  public life.

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Members of the group

• Eva Gatoo
• María Salvatierra
• Marta Teles
• Cynthia Vila
• Class 4th ESO-A
• Teacher Inés Candial
• Date 12- 02- 2007