Roman Relaxation

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Roman Relaxation

• What did the Romans do to entertain themselves?
• Did they play games?
• How did they relax?

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Roman Baths
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Why were baths so popular with the Romans?

• Roman baths were more like a visit to a leisure
  centre than a quick scrub.
• The Romans loved the baths because they were a
  good place to meet people and business could be
  conducted there.
• When you went to the baths you firstly changed
  and did some exercises.

• Then you might have a swim before going into a
  series of rooms that made you hotter and hotter
  to help you sweat off the dirt.
• All the dirt and sweat was then scraped off with
  a STRIGIL (made out of metal).
• They then swam in the cold pool.

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Games

• Animals and people were sometimes killed for
  entertainment as part of shows in amphitheatres.

• The Romans played similar games to what we play
  today. Board games with counters and dice were
  very popular with the Romans.
• Hunting was also popular. People in the
  countryside would hunt animals for fun as well as
  food.
• Some things the Romans did for fun were horrible.

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What did the Romans see in amphitheatres?

• Specially trained slaves called GLADIATORS would
  fight each other. They would even fight wild
  animals such as lions or bears. When a gladiator
  lost a fight the audience would decided whether
  he should die or live.

• The audience would put their thumbs out if they
  wanted them to die.
• If they wanted them to live they kept their
  thumbs in their hands so they couldn't be seen.

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• The Romans also went to the theatre to watch
  plays or listen to music.
• The actors often wore masks to show whether their
  character was sad or happy.

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Today's work

• Pretend you are writing a quiz about Roman
  leisure. You need to ask 10 questions with three
  possible answers, making sure one of those three
  is the correct one.
• Decorate your quiz sheet.
• Draw a box at the bottom of the page. You need to
  write the correct answers (the people doing the
  quiz wouldn't see this).