Ancient Rome

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Ancient Rome

What are we going to do?

5 lessons

• Roman Myths
• Roman Conquests
• Roman Government and Culture
  
• The Germanic invastions and the end of the Roman empire
  

Today

What do you already know about Ancient Rome?

Three Really Wierd Roman Myths

What they tell us about Rome

How many of you did Roman History in Basisschool?

Yes

No

Write down as many facts that you already know about Ancient Rome

Quiztime!

So what do you know?

Guess the answers (unless you know them of course)

What was strange about the founders (oprichters) of Rome: Romulos and Remus

1. They had no mother
2. Their mother was a wolf
3. Their father was a god
4. They were gods

This is the biggest the Roman Empire ever got

How long did it take Rome to conquer this empire?

1. 170 years
2. 470 years
3. 870 years
4. 1070 years

Romans came here to see Gladiators fight Gladitors, people fighting wild animals and lots of other nasty things

What was it called?

1. The colusseum
2. The circus
3. The death arena
4. The theatre

Look carefully at the pictures below. You can see Roman inventions (uitvindingen) that we still use today.

So what did the Romans invent that we still use (English or Nederlands or Denglish)

Roman Soldier

Roman Senator

Rich roman woman

Roman slaves

Party - rich romans

Poor Roman house

The timeline of Roman History

The timeline of Roman History

The Roman Kingdom: 753 BC – 509 BC

The Roman Republic – Oligarchy / Democracy: 509 BC – 27 BC
The Roman Empire – 27 BC – 476 AD

Today

The Roman Kingdom: 753 BC – 509 BC

• Not much historical evidence
• A lot of stories and myths told by the Romans about this time
• Important because it tells us what later Romans thought about themselves

Roman Myths

• You are going to watch a movie
• In the movie you will learn about 3 myths about the foundation (stichting) of Roman

The story of Romulus and Remus

The rape (verkrachting) of the Sabine women

The rape of Lucretia

Now

Go to Learnbeat 2, 2.3 Roman Europe