Ancient Rome

	Ancient Rome
Social Studies - Grade 6

The sixth grade Social Studies classes are studying Ancient Rome.
The students will be creating a picture book on some aspect of Roman culture.
Below are the topics covered and sites with useful information.

Technology (roads and architecture)	Roman Army	Food
Public Baths / Water Systems	Clothing	Daily / Family Life
Entertainment ( sports, gladiators, leisure games, theatre, Circus Maximus, etc.)

General Sites
Odyssey Online : Rome created just for kids	The Illustrated History of the Roman Empire: Children's section
Daily Life in Ancient Rome	Ancient Rome
PBS: The Roman Empire (esp. family life)	Roma (Civilization)
Romans Page	The Romans
Voyage back in time: Greece and Rome very basic (actually intended for 3rd graders)	Ancient Rome these pages were written by college students for middle school students to use
Ancient Civilizations done by students and short entries, but helpful	The Roman Empire all aspects of daily Roman life & the Army
Ancient Rome
Links Only (you will find that many of the links are already listed on this page)
Welcome to Ancient Rome (many links!)	World History : Rome
Ancient Rome a huge listing, but many links useful for this unit.	Ancient Rome the links are divided into working subjects

The sites below are more specialized. They have information on specific topics.

Public Water, Baths, and Latrines (more information under Roman Technology)
Roman Baths and Bathing tells a lot about baths, bathing, and public latrines	Roman Bath - from Nova Online (Secrets of Lost Empires)
The History of Plumbing in Pompeii and Herculaneum the basis for our modern plumbing was in Ancient Rome according to this article	The History of Plumbing - Roman and English Legacy be careful, this page has a great deal of information, but there is also information on English plumbing
Roman Aqueducts and Water Systems -has a wonderful visual to show workings	Aqueducts: Introduction - History

Food in Ancient Rome
Ancient Roman Dishes - Collection contains a few recipes and describes some of the ingredients	Roman Cuisine good information with a second page on the preservation of food, but there are spelling errors
Social Position and Food in the Roman Empire - great article	A Taste of the Ancient World
Chimbis' World: Recipes sorted chronologically - choose the recipes from the Prehistoric period	Bread- all about the entire process from raising the grain to making the bread.

Roman Clothing
Costumer's Manifesto - Main Page Ancient Roman Costume - good for drawings Ancient Roman Dress Timeline of costume history - images	Smith's Dictionary: articles on clothing and dress - many good pages with images
	Ancient Roman Clothing - very useful
Roman life - the useful sites are the ones on clothing	Roman Clothing I a more readable article on the clothing men Roman Clothing II another great article - this time on women's clothing
The Roman Makeover - interesting
Roman Costume - huge PowerPoint on costume - more that you will need to know.	Roman Clothing more about the making of the clothes, rather than who wore what, etc.

Family Life
Daily Life in Rome - explains the differences in rich and poor, how the day went and especially clothing.	Background info - Daily Life in Ancient Rome
Definitions of Social Classes	Sample plan of a Roman House

Roman Technology - Roads, Architecture (see below for more sites)
The Construction and Makeup of Ancient Roman Roads in-depth articles on road building	Roman Technology a concise article about the achievements of Roman technology
Ancient Roman Technology Handbook tells how they were able to do the things they did. Reading level is very high.	Aqueducts Be sure to check out the page on construction of the aqueducts as well as the Roman Aqueducts page.

*Architecture (see also Technology above) note the different spellings of Colosseum**
Pantheon	The Colosseum
The Coliseum of Ancient Rome	Ancient Roman Pantheon
Ancient Rome: the Pantheon	Roman Architecture in the City of Rome mostly pictures, but interesting

The Roman Army
The Roman Army - more than you may want to know!	The Roman Army answers all of your questions!
The Glory that was Rome	The Roman Army - many drawings/graphics
Weapons and Siege Catapults Equipment	The Roman Military
The Romans - from the site titled The History of the Roman Legions and other Ancients

Entertainment ( Sports, games, Roman Circus, Gladiators, etc.)
The Gladiator all are pages from same site Types of Gladiators Culture of the Gladitorial Games	Roman Board Games
	Roman Ball Games
Entertainment in Ancient Rome	Gladiators (Britannica.com)
Gladiators scholarly article, but contains much information	Circus Maximus - Main article a long and scholarly article Circus Maximus a part of the one above
Ludi NovaRomani all about the chariot races, gladiators, etc. (Ludi is the public games)	Chariot Races
Gladiators