My work for History!

1. A travellers guide to
AnciEnT Rome
Ancient ROme
By sabiah khan

2. Contents
Page 3 Introduction
Page 4-6 Buildings
Page 7 Entertainment/Comedy
Page 8-9 Roman baths
Page 10-13 shops and markets
Page 14-15 How to stay healthy

3. The travellers Guide to Rome
Intruduction
Welcome to the travellers guide to Rome!
The city in Italy is great to visit to see the buildings and the beautiful work of famous
architects.
You will find out what will be a pleasure to see and what you will like to stay away from.
Their is loads to see and do right in Rome !
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4. Buildings
Their are so many buildings but they
aren't just in Rome they are all over
Europe.For example Hadrians wall,most
of us Romans built it in between
Scotland and England to keep Romans
safe when we were in England away
from the mad scottish people.It is
seventy-three miles long and fifteen feet
high.The wall is joined up to Roman
forts and temples near by.The wall was
built by 122 romans.
What you can do here:
It is a great place to watch Romans
from the empire train and practice and
see why it was made.
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5. Buildings Building:Colosseum
Location-Rome,Italy
The Colosseum is what you call an amphitheatre.An
amphitheatre is a open open venue building where you can
watch gladiators fighting and performances.
Buildings like these are made by famous architects that
design various buildings that are famous to the rest of the
country.
The colosseum was built by the emperor vesapian.It is 189
metres long and 156 metres wide with a base area of
24,000m with a height of more than 48 meters.
It has about 80 entrances.
What you can do here:
watch performances and gladiators and animals fight.
Bring snacks to watch and reserve front row seats.
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6. Buildings
Next we head to Fontana di Trevi.
Fontana di Trevi is also known as Trevi Fountain.The fountain was made
by Nicola salvi in 1732 and completed in 1762,the middle statue at the top is
Neptun (God of the sea) flanked by two tritons.
People go here to get water because it is clean.It is the largest fountain in the city and one of
the most famous fountains in the world.
What you can do there:
You can shop at the stalls on the lanes coming out of the fountain and throw a penny into the
water.
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7. Entertainment and comedy
In Rome we use people to play parts in plays or gladiators to fight.This brings
us comedy to our day.Their are some serious tragedies that make us feel
sorry for the characters.The actors wear masks to show if they are happy or
not.They also wear wigs to show who they are e.g. a old man wears a white
wig,
a slave wears a red wig.
If the soldiers are bored they sometimes like to play board games with dice
and counters.
Some Romans like to hunt down animals for fun,it is a great deal because
soon they get to eat the animal on their plates.
A gladiator gets a wooden sword for retirement.
In big amphitheatres the stage is sometimes flooded with water with real
boats floating on water and real crocodiles.
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8. Public Baths
Public baths are open to Trabula
everyone!
Romans spend their leisure
time at the baths.It is a great
place to have a little chat and
meet up with friends.Young
Romans like to play trabula and
trigon.Trabula is a board game Bath
and trigon is a very hard game
played by three people where
you have to catch.Their are hot
and cold rooms .Their are about
170 baths in Rome.
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9. Plan of Roman baths
First at the baths we get changed at a apodyterium from their we put our clothes
away which are guarded by guards.
Next we go to the frigidarium which is a cold room with a cold pool we put on
wooden sandals for other reasons soon told.
After that we go to the tepidarium which is a warm room that we can relax in for
some time.
We then go to the caldarium which is the hottest room of all.The floors are too
hot so we have to put the sandals on for this reason so we don't burn our
feet.Their is a labrum (a fountain) to refresh yourself with.In this room you get
really sweaty and get scraped with a strigil before washing in the hot bath.
Finally we go back to the frigidarium to get a cool refreshing plunge to get rid of
the sweaty oil.You then get changed again and leave your sandals for the next
bather.
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10. Shops & Markets
The shops and markets are oftenly
crowded with people and they are really
smelly! So the rich Romans get their
slaves to do the shopping for them,the
slaves are usually dirty and not carred
about so you wouldn't like to go near
them.So this is just information to tell you
not to go near the shops!
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11. Some Roman coins used for shopping:
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12. Family buisness
Some shops are ran by the family and the money they get they would use to live on and
get more things for their shop to sell.The family would run a buisness in the market or in
shops that sold:
-Bakery from bakers
-Fruits from fruit sellers
-Tools from blacksmiths
-Books from bookshop owners
-medicine from chemists
-food to take away from cooked meat sellers
-Flowers from florists
-Jewelery from jewelers
-shoes from shoemakers
-ointments from ointment sellers
-Clothes from embroiders and dress shops
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13. Markets in Rome sell stuff to live on and use in a normal home
just like other markets around the world.Trajans market is a
example of a Roman market.The complex was made in 106 AD by
Apollodorus of Damascus.Apollodorus was the most famous
architect of the time when he builded the market.It has less than
150 shops and offices,each shop is really small in size so the
customers have to wait outside the shop to be served.
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14. How to stay healthy:
To stay healthy Romans eat food like fruit,fish,vegetables and
nuts.They should all stay healthy so they can have energy to
fight if any battles take place and soldiers ran out although the
Roman empire know they are well organized than any other
empire.If any Roman falls sick they would go or get someone
else to go to the shops to get medicine.Medicine was an idea
from Greeks and Asians which we copied from them using their
ingredients like brambles,herbs etc.
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15. At shops and markets they sell ointments and magic spells.These are brought to
get better and to cure illnesses and diseases.They seem to be very strange but we
believe they can do many different things and we have been blessed by the gods
for getting such magic as this.
We do sport like swimming and wrestling that makes us have a healthy body.This
is very fun aswell and it is comedy for other Romans aswell.
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16. How Rome got its name
Rome got its name by Romulus the son of the god Mars.Mars and Rhea got
married and had two twins.There were plots planned about harming Rheas
father,her sons and her husband Mars.To protect her boys she put her sons into a
basket and let them float of into the river.When the boys woke up one of them
started to cry and then a she-wolf heard.She picked the basket with her mouth and
then walked on into her cave.She fed them milk and then one day the boys went
out to play.A shepherd saw them play so he followed them into the cave.When the
wolf was asleep the man took the boys to his house.He named them Romulus and
Remus.As the twins grew older they built houses on the shores of Tiber.They both
wanted to give the city a different name so they started quarreling.Suddenly
Romulus picked a rock and killed his brother.Romulus got to choose the name of
the place and that's how Rome got it's name.
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17. Rich Roman food
Rich Romans love their food because it is the best in the time!
Rich Romans eat stuff like stuffed door mice,roast
peacock,snails with milk,peacock brains and flamingo
tongues.The more weirder it is the more impressed the guests
be.Females cook the food for the family and gusets.Guests get
to sit on sofas to eat just like in the background they are lying
down on sofas.Dinner is given in late afternoon and food like
(hare,pig,beef,goat,chicken,fish and pigeon is eaten) followed
by fruit and nuts.Ice cream is a treat.Lettuce is served at the
end of the meal because Romans believe it helps you sleep.
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18. Poor Roman food
Poor Romans eat food like bread,vegetable soup and porridge.Meat is
given atleast once a week.If the Romans live in the countryside they go
hunting for animals and fishing for sea animals.Poor homes have no
stoves so they give food to the baker to cook for them.
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19. Worship
We worship Gods and Goddesses that all come from one family.Each
God or Goddess looks after different people or things.We get different
Gods and Goddesses to get stronger and have a stronger empire.Isis
was borrowed from Egypt and Mithras was borrowed from Iran.If we
travel we would ask Mercury (God of travel) for protection on the way.If
we travel by sea we would make a sacrifice to Nepune (God of sea).We
trust people called soothsayers and augurs to tell us what Gods and
Goddesses want and fortell the future by cutting open a dead animal
and looking at its insides.Little statues of Gods and Goddesses are
kept in a home to keep away evil spirits.The statues are put up high in
the house to show how special the Gods and Goddesses are.

20. At the temples
At the temples their are statues of Gods people make sacrifices
their and offer food,flowers and money.Emperors say that they
are Gods too so we have to make extra sacrifices for
them.Sometimes priests sacrifice a bull as part as the
ceremony.