3.3 Greek and Roman Culture

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The Roman Empire

3.3 Greaco Roman Culture

Welcome

Aan het einde van de les...

• You can write down some features of Roman culture.
  
• You can explain how Graeco-Roman culture spread and what consequences that had for Germanic culture.

Today

• What do you know already (+- 10 min)
• Explanation (+- 15 min)
• Video  (+- 15 min)

Give 2 similarities between the Greeks and the Romans

Typically Roman

• Worshiped their emperors as Gods.
• Wear a toga to official occasions.
• Gladiator fights.
• Chilling in a bathhouse.

<div>Slaves build fires for underfloor heating and warm rooms.</div>

<div>A healthy mind in a healthy body: the Romans considered sport and hygiene as very important.</div>

<div>There were separate areas for men and women.</div>

<div>There are latrines, the communal toilets.</div>

Baths and rooms were available in all kinds of temperatures: from the cold <span style="font-weight: bold">frigidarium</span> to the sweltering<span style="font-weight: bold"> laconium</span>: a kind of sauna

<span style="font-weight: bold">
</span><div>There was an ordinary swimming pool.</div>

But what were those Romans really good at?

• They were good architects (central heating, forts, sewers, roads, etc.)
• Organising.
• Legislation: Roman Law

Laws in the Roman Empire.

The <span style="font-weight: bold">Roman Forum</span> (Roman Market Square) was the political, legal, religious and commercial center of Rome.

<div>Reconstruction of<span style="font-weight: bold"> the Roman Forum</span> as it must have looked during the Roman Empire.</div>

Video

You are going to watch a video about the Romans and the Batavians (a Germanic people). You will be asked a number of questions. PLEASE NOTE: the questions are not in order and in Dutch. You will have time after the video to complete the questions.

Discuss!

Homework

The questions that you made have a bunch of Dutch concepts. Use your book to make a glossary about the Batavians.

Your Glossary needs to have at least 10 concepts.

The Roman Empire

3.3 Greaco Roman Culture

Welcome

Aan het einde van de les...

• You can describe how the Roman Empire came to an end.

Today

• What do you know already (+- 10 min)
• Mindmapping (+- 15 min)
• Present to your group (+- 10 min)
• Blooket (+-  10 min)

End of the Roman Empire

Exercise!

Make a poster or a mindmap about the end of the Roman Empire (Paragraph 3.4, the collapse of the Roman Empire). 

Exercise!

Present your mindmap/poster in groups. Make adjustments to your own poster/mindmap so it is complete!

Blooket