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Students learn about:
• the geographical features: rivers, hills, marshes
• the water system, drains: Cloaca Maxima
• the Forum Romanum: the Via Sacra (road)
• the Regia, Temple of Vesta, the Curia, Temple of Saturn, Basilica Aemilia, Basilica Julia,
the Rostra, the Tabularium, the Comitium: main features and purposes of the buildings
• activities in the Forum: politics, administration, religion, courts, theatre, gladiatorial
displays, triumphs, speeches, funerals
• the area of the Campus Martius: buildings: Circus Flaminius, Villa Publica, Altar of
Mars; Pompey’s theatre, military training ground
• the Circus Maximus: main features and uses