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| Greco-Roman Culture | The mixing of elements of Greek. Helenistic and Roman culture. |
| Pompeii | Roman town destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D. |
| Bas-Reliefs | A form of sculpture in which images project from a flat surface. |
| Mosaics | Pictures or designs made by setting small pieces of stone, glass or tile onto a surface. |
| Marcus Aurelius | Emperor who was also a Stoic philosopher. |
| Virgil | Roman poet of the Aneid, a poem about the founding of Rome. |
| Ovid | Roman poet who wrote light, witty poetry, usually about love and life. |
| Livy | Roman historian who wrote a multivolume history of Rome to 9 B.C. |
| Tacitus | Roman historian who wrote about the good and bad of imperial Rome, was concerned about moral decay. |
| Latin | The language of the Romans which remained the language of learning in the West after the fall of Rome. |
| Concrete | Roman invention which made Roman architecture possible. |
| Arch | Allowed the Romans to build higher and wider than the Greeks. |
| Dome | Major feature of the Pantheon.,  |
| Aqueducts | Carried water to Roman cities, sometimes for hundreds of miles. |
| Roads | Connected Rome to all parts of the Empire. |
| Civil Law | Common laws applied to citizens. |
| Public Law | Laws that applied to the state. |
