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Travel guide toAncient Rome

History of Romeby Jacob

Romans Have a Myth about the start of Rome and here it is. Once there were II twin babyboys called Romulus and Remus. Their Father was Mars, the God of War. However, theiruncle stole the babies from their Mother and threw them into the Tiber river. Thankfully, ashe wolf saved them and kept them alive with her milk. When they were a little older, akindly herdsman rescued them and brought them up. Later when they were adults,Romulus built a settlement at the spot the wolf saved them. After an argument, Romuluskilled Remus and named the settlement Rome, after himself.

What to do in Rome

Theatreby Elsie

Romans love the theatre. I am going to tell you about it.

Rome's biggest theatre holds 27,000people. Women and children sitseparately from the men. Plays areusually funny comedies andsometimes tragedies. They are oftenput on as part of their religiousceremonies to please the gods.

All the actors in the theatre are men

but they wear masks to show whatperson they are. They brown masksfor the men and white for the women.

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Bathsby Elsie

If you want to have a swim you can go to the baths. In one timeof the day the men and boys can go. In another time, the womenand girls can go in. In another, the whole family can go! You can

have a bath there, then go to a really heated room.

Bring your servant with you and they will scrape you down at theend to get all the dirt off. At the end you'll have a really cold bath!

Gladiatorsby Elsie

The Romans like fighting each other and watching fights. Gladiators fight each other andlions and bears while a big crowd watches.

Chariot races

by Elsie

Chariots are like cars but with horses - a little cartwith two wheels behind it.

Romans like racing chariots. The place to see theraces is Circus Maximus.

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ReligionBy Rebecca

Hello! I will be showing you the customs and diet of theancient Romans. You can look at other versions to knowmore.

Romans believe in a variety of gods. They are differentfrom other gods because they are in human form. Theycopy gods from other countries because they think it willbring them luck. Copying is one of their chief customs.They copy anything from theatre to the plumes on theirhelmets!

Romans love violence. They have a lot of Christians killedcruelly and slowly in the first century AD. But that doesn'tstop Christians. Lots of people want to become Christians

and die like them. One of the gruesome deaths forChristians is tying a Christian to a pole and covering themwith tar.

Romans like to offer sacrifices to the gods in temples.Inside the temple there is usually a statue of a god.People called priests look after the temple. Sometimesthey kill an animal like a bull as part of a sacrifice. Theyalso do lots of sacrifices at home.

Foodby Rebecca

Poor Romans eat mostly bread, vegetable soup and porridge. If they are lucky they getmeat Poor people don't have kitchens so they take things to the baker to be baked. Mostpeople take takeaways like sausages from shops. Rich people have slaves that cook thefood. They mostly eat a small breakfast and a snack at lunchtime. The snack is usuallybread and cheese or eggs and salad. They have dinner in the afternoon with a meatcourse (like pigeon and hare). Then they had fruit or nuts. Ice cream is a treat. We havesalad at the end because it makes you go to sleep.

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The Roman Armyby Jacob

The Roman army is very powerful. As our empireexpands we have taken more and more people into

it. It includes people from Greece, Africa, Gaul*,Spain, Germany, the Balkans and the Middle East!

There are around thirty legions in The Roman Armyand each legion has at least 4000 men in them! Butit isn't numbers that make us so powerful, its oursuperior army strategies!

When approaching the enemy In war, our soldiers march

with our shields protecting us almost entirely! Let meexplain. When marching, the front row of soldiers hold theirshields in front of them and all the rest held their shieldsabove their head in case of arrows. This army posture iscalled "The Tortoise."

Roman soldiers have discipline! They almost always obeyorders. Each century ( a troop of about 80 men in the army) obeys their leader, called aCenturion. There are 6 Centuries in a Cohort and 10 cohorts in a legion. The officercontrolling all the Legion is known as a Legate.

* Modern day France