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The Forum (Forum Romanum)

The Forum was the open center of Rome for speeches, courts, shops, and processions. Temples and the senate house stood around it.

Grades 4–8. Daily life.

How it connects

It is a place, not only the English word for a meeting.

Latin words that go with this card: urbs, lex.

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