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A Walk Through Rome (Urbs Roma)

A city map places the Forum, Capitoline Hill, Palatine Hill, Circus Maximus, Colosseum, Via Sacra, temples, and the Tiber in relation to one another.

Grades 5–8. Places and stories.

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Modern civic spaces still echo Rome: capitals, courts, public squares, arches, and ceremonial roads all borrow Roman habits of public architecture.

Latin words that go with this card: urbs, forum, via, templum, collis.

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