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Appian Way | first ancient Roman road, avenue for religious or triumphal processions |
basilica | public building, and a law court |
Campus Martius | place where young men exercise |
Capitoline | Hill between the Forum and the Campus Martius |
Circus Maximus | ancient Roman chariot-racing stadium and mass entertainment venue |
Colosseum | oval amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome |
Curia | the senate-house |
Esquiline | highest and largest of the Seven Hills of Rome |
Falminian Way | road leading from Rome over the Apennine Mountains to Ariminum |
Forum | main center of a Roman city, for commercial, religious, and social activities |
Ostia | near the ancient port of Rome, |
Palatine | centremost Hill of Rome, place for emperors, Temple of Apollo |
Pantheon | with a domed roof supported by a colonnade on all sides, devoted to all the gods |
Rostra | large speaker's platform |
Sacred Way | main street and the widest street in the Forum, lined with colonnades. |
Tarpeian Rock | steep cliff of the southern summit of the Capitoline Hill |
Temple of Aescuplius | built in memory of the god of Medicine on the Tiber Island. |
Temple of Saturn | contained the bronze tablets on which Roman law was inscribed. |
thermae | large imperial bath complexes |
Tiber | flows through Rome and enters the Tyrrhenian Sea of the Mediterranean rising in the Apennine Mountains |
Via Appia | connected Rome to Brindisi, in southeast Italy. |
Viminal | smallest Hill of Rome, Caracalla's temple of Serapis was on it. |