More Roman Revelry (or Easy Activities on Ancient Rome)

If you have finished reading about Pompeii, you will be relieved that you have never been melted by a pyroclastic surge like the poor people who lived there in 79AD. You can now go on to other activities that will introduce you to this powerful, violent and influential civilisation.

Click HERE for the Gladiator: Dressed to Kill Game from the wonderful BBC website if you haven’t have played this game already. (You can also click on the pic below.)

 Roman Mosaics: The Romans loved to make pictures with small tiles. Click HERE for some pictures of Roman mosaics to inspire you. Then try making your own by clicking on my mosaic below to go to a site that lets you design one online.

Click HERE to view a Roman mosaic of a dog – you will love it.

A Roman Street

Toss everything that doesn’t belong in a Roman street into the time tunnel in this game from the BBC. Click HERE.

 

The History of Pizza

Read this interesting history before going on to the task below this table. Click HERE

Now see what you can find out about ONE of the famous leaders of ancient Rome. Here are a few names to get you started. Start a page of information about one of these leaders, with quotations, pictures and details of his life.

  • Julius Caesar

  • Tiberius

  • Claudius

  • Caligula

  • Nero

  • Constantine

Good luck!

Ros.

 

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Work and Play in Everyday Pompeii

(Clipart licensed from the Clip Art Gallery, Schooldiscovery.com)

First of all, you need to know that ancient Roman society was dangerous.

You could be eaten by lions.

You could be sent to gladiator school.

You could be sold into slavery and sent to the mines (where you would not live long).

If you were a soldier you were expected to build roads, fight in battles and cart around 40kg or more on your back during long marches.

If you were Julius Caesar you could be stabbed by a whole lot of senators just when you thought you had reached a state of unassailable power.

Then of course, if you lived in Pompeii in 79AD, you could have a heap of ash fall on you and expire in the ruins of your city, only to be discovered and pored over hundreds of years later by nosey archaeologists.

SO WHAT’S WRONG WITH NOSEY?

Show me how nosey you can be by reading the BBC website (links below) on what happened at Pompeii and then filling in the “Close the Gap” exercise at the link below that.

Then (and only then) you can go to gladiator school yourself!

BBC Website – Introduction to the story of Pompeii

Everyday life in Pompeii – click on each of the pictures in this gallery to find out more

Architecture in Pompeii

CLOSE THE GAP EXERCISE

A Roman aqueduct (they were clever as well as brutal)

http://uk1.hotpotatoes.net/ex/35356/NQVEFOFY.php

Gladiator: Dressed to Kill Game

Good luck from your nosey teacher (no comments, please),

Ros.

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