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DK Find Out! | Fun Facts for Kids on Animals, Earth, History and more!

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Visit DK Find Out! to learn about dinosaurs, space, animals, nature & more. Fun learning activities for kids with videos, quizzes & galleries at DKFindOut.com

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Mrs.Gilbert'sSocialStudies6 - Unit 13 Ancient Rome

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Welcome to Unit 13 Ancient Rome!In this unit, students will learn about the rise and fall of Ancient Rome and the beginning of the Roman Empire. We will analyze the causes that contributed to a successful Roman Republic and how it compares to our culture today.

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Ancient Rome for Kids and Teachers - Ancient Civilizations for Kids and Teachers

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If you had lived in ancient times, would you have chosen to become a Roman citizen? You might have! The ancient Romans invented more games than any other culture. Join the Empire! Find out what the ancient Romans did all day!

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The best kids'interactive world history games and activities based on the Ancient World are given in this list! Games on these Ancient History topics are arranged chronologically: Archeology, Prehistory, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Israel, China, Japan, the Inca & Aztec Empires, and Varied Cultures.

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Primary Source- Painting of Forum Ancient Rome

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Primary Source- Painting of Forum Ancient Rome

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The Roman Empire: in the First Century. Special Features. Emperor of Rome Game | PBS

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Home |The Roman Empire |Special Features |The Series |Resources |For Educators Purchase | Pledge Now | Feedback | Site Map Privacy Policy | © Public Broadcasting Services. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - March 23, 2006

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Republic/Dictatorship

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Division of Rome

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The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor Nero and His City by Stephen Dando-Collins - Audiobooks on Google Play

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The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor Nero and His City audiobook written by Stephen Dando-Collins. Narrated by John Lescault. Get instant access to all your favorite books. No monthly commitment. Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Try Google Play Audiobooks today!

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Romulus and Remus

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Romulus and Remus by Melissa Fitzgerald - Books on Google Play

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Romulus and Remus - Ebook written by Melissa Fitzgerald. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Romulus and Remus.

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Romulus and Remus

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12 Tables of Law

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Roman Carthage

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Primary Source- People- Assassination of Julius Caesar  

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Primary Source- People- Assassination of Julius Caesar  

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Primary Source-Events-The Laws of the Twelve Tables

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Primary Source-Events-The Laws of the Twelve Tables

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The earliest attempt by the Romans to create a code of law was the Laws of the Twelve Tables. A commission of ten men (: Oliver J. Thatcher, ed., Decemviri) was appointed (c. 455 B.C.) to draw up a code of law binding on both patrician and plebeian and which consuls would have to enforce. The commission produced enough statutes to fill ten bronze tablets. The plebeians were dissatisfied and so a second commission of ten was therefore appointed (450 B.C.) and two additional tablets were added. What follows are a selection from the Twelve Tables. [Source The Library of Original Sources (Milwaukee: University Research Extension Co., 1901), Vol. III: The Roman World, pp. 9-11. See also Lex Duodecim Tabularum, by George Long in William Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875, pp. 688-690.]

If anyone summons a man before the magistrate, he must go. If the man summoned does not go, let the one summoning him call the bystanders to witness and then take him by force.If he shirks or runs away, let the summoner lay hands on him. When the litigants settle their case by compromise, let the magistrate announce it. If they do not compromise, let them state each his own side of the case, in the comitium of the forum before noon. Afterwards let them talk it out together, while both are present. After noon, in case either party has failed to appear, let the magistrate pronounce judgment in favor of the one who is present. If both are present the trial may last until sunset but no later.

Table II.
2. He whose witness has failed to appear may summon him by loud calls before his house every third day.

One who has confessed a debt, or against whom judgment has been pronounced, shall have thirty days to pay it in. After that forcible seizure of his person is allowed. The creditor shall bring him before the magistrate. Unless he pays the amount of the judgment or some one in the presence of the magistrate interferes in his behalf as protector the creditor so shall take him home and fasten him in stocks or fetters. He shall fasten him with not less than fifteen pounds of weight or, if he choose, with more. If the prisoner choose, he may furnish his own food. If he does not, the creditor must give him a pound of meal daily; if he choose he may give him more. Against a foreigner the right in property shall be valid forever.

Table IV.
1. A dreadfully deformed child shall be quickly killed. If a father sell his son three times, the son shall be free from his father.A child born after ten months since the father's death will not be admitted into a legal inheritance.

Table V.
1. Females should remain in guardianship even when they have attained their majority.

Table VI.
1. When one makes a bond and a conveyance of property, as he has made formal declaration so let it be binding.

Let them keep the road in order. If they have not paved it, a man may drive his team where he likes. Should a tree on a neighbor's farm be bent crooked by the wind and lean over your farm, you may take legal action for removal of that tree. A man might gather up fruit that was falling down onto another man's farm.

Table VIII.
2. If one has maimed a limb and does not compromise with the injured person, let there be retaliation. If one has broken a bone of a freeman with his hand or with a cudgel, let him pay a penalty of three hundred coins. If he has broken the bone of a slave, let him have one hundred and fifty coins. If one is guilty of insult, the penalty shall be twenty-five coins. If one is slain while committing theft by night, he is rightly slain. If a patron shall have devised any deceit against his client, let him be accursed. Any person who destroys by burning any building or heap of corn deposited alongside a house shall be bound, scourged, and put to death by burning at the stake provided that he has committed the said misdeed with malice aforethought; but if he shall have committed it by accident, that is, by negligence, it is ordained that he repair the damage or, if he be too poor to be competent for such punishment, he shall receive a lighter punishment. A person who had been found guilty of giving false witness shall be hurled down from the Tarpeian Rock. No person shall hold meetings by night in the city.

The penalty shall be capital for a judge or arbiter legally appointed who has been found guilty of receiving a bribe for giving a decision. Treason: he who shall have roused up a public enemy or handed over a citizen to a public enemy must suffer capital punishment. Putting to death of any man, whosoever he might be unconvicted is forbidden.

None is to bury or burn a corpse in the city. The women shall not tear their faces nor wail on account of the funeral.

Table XI.
1. Marriages should not take place between plebeians and patricians.

Table XII.
5. Whatever the people had last ordained should be held as binding by law.

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The Laws of the Twelve Tables, c.450 B.C.

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The earliest attempt by the Romans to create a code of law was the Laws of the Twelve Tables. A commission of ten men (Decemviri) was appointed to draw up a code of law binding on both patrician and plebeian and which the consuls would have to enforce.

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Roman Empire: Educational Video For Kids

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ROMAN EMPIRE | Educational Video for Kids.

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Ancient Rome Fact Cards

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If you're teaching your children about the Romans, use our free printable fact cards as a display, teaching or activity resource! You could use this resource in a number of ways:

Print the cards and use them on a classroom display board. Challenge your children to find the answers to different questions!

We have included a blank template on the final page of the PDF. Ask your students to find other facts and record these on the cards.

Ask your children to create a written, audio or video report about the Romans using the information the cards.

Display the PDF on an interactive whiteboard and use the file as a whole class teaching tool.

Print the cards and ask your children to read and remember the information on the cards. Can they then share what they have learned with the rest of the class?

We have fact cards for many other topics. If you have any requests for new ones, please get in touch.

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If you're teaching your children about the Romans, use our free printable fact cards as a display, teaching or activity resource! You could use this resource in a number of ways: Print the cards and use them on a classroom display board. Challenge your children to find the answers to different questions!

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Ancient Roman Online Games

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Ancient Rome - Free Interactive Online Games for Kids and Teachers - Ancient Rome for Kids

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Roman children played with balls and kites and made hoops with pieces of metal on them so that when they rolled they chimed like bells. Mostly though, boys played war type games. They practiced with wooden swords and played conquer Troy. Children would also make small figures and play with them. Girls played with dolls. Poorer children made rag dolls while the richer children had dolls of clay or wax some even had joints to bend and pose. They loved marbles. There are mosaics and paintings that show the children of ancient Rome playing all kinds of games. Homer describes kids riding on hobby horses, building play houses, and even making little carts and hitching up live mice to pull them. Both kids and adults played an early form of tic-tac-toe during the Roman Empire. They played an early form of golf called paganica, by hitting a stuffed leather ball with a bent stick. Young and old, the ancient Romans loved challenges, competitions, and games of chance.

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"See Inside Ancient Rome" By Katie Daynes

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*Roman Architecture* Colosseum