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| Appian Way | One of the earliest and most important Roman roads of the ancient republic and it connected Rome to Brindisi in southeast Italy. |
| Aventine | The hill where Remus attempted to found his city, and here was located the Remuria, a site traditionally considered Remus' tomb. The archaic king Ancus Marcius (640-616 B.C.) first settled the hill with refugees from towns he had conquered near Rome. |
| basilica | Large roofed hall, public building located in the Forum, and served as law court, meeting place, and marketplace. |
| Campus Martius | Area of 600 acres dedicated to Mars, and was used for pasturing horses and sheep, when not used as a military training area. |
| Capitoline | The smallest and most important of the seven hills of Ancient Rome. As the political and religious heart of Rome the hill became a symbol of Rome's reign as Caput Mundi, capital of the world. The location of the Temple of Jupiter. |
| Circus Maximus | Roman chariot racing stadium and mass entertainment venue, located in the valley between the Aventine and Palatine Hills. |
| Colosseum | Oval amphitheatre in the center of rome, also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, built of travertine limestone, tuff, and brick-faced concrete, and held 50,000 spectatores. |
| Curia | The buildings of assembly usually for the senate, built in the seventh century BC, during the reign of Tullius Hostilius, located at the edge of the Forum. |
| Esquiline | One of the largest of the Seven Hills of Rome, composed of tuff, located between the Viminal and Caelian Hill, and includes two main spurs the Caspian and the Oppian. |
| Flaminian Way | Roman road leading from Rome, over the Apennine Mountains, and to Ariminum on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. |
| Forum | Usually located near the center of a Roman town, it served as a public area and marketplace where commercial, religious, economic, political, legal, and social activities occurred |
| Ostia | The only district of Rome on the Tyrrhenian Sea sits at the mouth of the Tiber River where cargo would be transerffered and sent up rivers. |
| Palatine | A high-level official attached to imperal or royal courts in Europe since Roman times. This term were first used in Ancient Rome for Chamberlains of the Emperor due their association with the Palatine Hill. |
| Pantheon | A temple, dedicated to all the gods of pagan Rome, commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus and completed by the emperor Hadrian. |
| Quirinal | One of the Seven HIlls of Rome, at the northernmost and the highest of the Seven Hillls of Rome. Named after an anceint god of war of the Sabine people as the god of avatar of Romulus, originally a nestle of the Sabine people on the peninsula. The Hill started to play a role in the daily life of the city, the Sabines had a grreat influence on Roman culture (mythology, politics, art, etc.) |
| Rostra | The speaker's platform in the forum, the front was decorated with two rows of ships' prows. |
| Sacred Way | Road from Athens to Eleusis, It was the route taken by a procession celebrating the Eleusinian Mysteries, used as part of the route for Roman triumphs, which celebrated victories in war and helped men build political careers. |
| Tarpeian Rock | A place of execution reserved for murderers and traitors that would be hurled from its sharp cliffs. |
| Temple of Aescuplius | An ancient Roman temple to Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, on the Isola Tiberina in Rome. |
| Temple of Saturn | An ancient Roman temple to the god Saturn. Its ruins stand at the foot of the Capitoline Hill at the western end of the Roman Forum. |
| Tiber | One of longest rivers in ​Italy, flows from the Apennines at Mount Fumaiolo through Rome and into the Tyrrhenian Sea at Ostia |
| Via Appia | Rome's gateway to the east, connected Rome with Capua, stretched 400 miles to Brindisi, from where Roman ships sailed to Greece and Egypt. |
| Viminal | Nestled between the Quirinal Hill and the Esquiline Hill, the smallest of all the Seven Hills of the Rome. This is where Roma Termini is located and, on top of that, it is home to the most prestigious opera house of the city, that is, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. |
