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Apartment Houses (Insula)

Most city people did not live in a courtyard house. They lived in an insula, a crowded apartment block of several floors.

Grades 5–8. Daily life.

How it connects

Insula literally means island. The building stood like a block among the streets.

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

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