| Roman soldiers were not allowed to get married | Army |
| The word "decimate" comes from a punishment for Roman soldiers | |
| Roman soldiers served for 25 years before they could retire | |
| Roman soldiers wore leather, scale and chain armour | |
| Gladioli and gladiators are named after the "gladius", a type of sword | |
| The first emperor was Augustus, adopted son of Julius Caesar | Emperors |
| The emperor Hadrian spent more time travelling than he did in Rome | |
| The Praetorian Guard were elite soldiers who served the emperors | |
| Emperor Nero murdered his brother, wife, mother and lover | |
| As well as emperor, Marcus Aurelius was also a philosopher | |
| Rome was supposedly founded by the twins Romulus and Remus | Legends |
| Romans claimed descent from Trojan hero Aeneas | |
| Bees owe their sting to Jupiter. It is a curse as well as a gift | |
| Lucretia was a legendary heroine who founded the Roman Republic | |
| Cloelia was a legendary woman who led captive women to freedom | |
| Before it became a republic or an empire Rome was ruled by 7 kings | Kings |
| Numa Pompilius was Rome's second king and a peaceful man | |
| Tullus Hostilius was allegedly killed by Jupiter with a lightning bolt! | |
| Lucius Tarquinius Priscus was Rome's first Etruscan king | |
| Tarquinius Superbus was the last Roman king. He was a tyrant | |
| From 264 to 146 BCE Rome fought the Punic Wars against Carthage | Wars |
| The Battle of Cynoscephalae in 197 BCE saw Rome defeat Macedonia | |
| The Gladiator War was fought against slaves led by Spartacus | |
| The Great Roman Civil War brought Julius Caesar to power in 45 BCE | |
| The Romans were a force to be feared but they did not always win | |
| The Romans had 12 major gods: Dei Consentes | Gods |
| The Romans adopted some gods from cultures they conquered | |
| 15 emperors and their wives were regarded as gods | |
| As well as the 12 main gods Romans worshipped hundreds of others | |
| 3 gods were particularly important: Jupiter, Juno and Minerva | |
| Christianity was founded in the Roman Empire | Christianity |
| Christians were tolerated until Emperor Nero's time | |
| Despite the persecutions, Christianity's popularity grew | |
| By the 4th Century there were 6 million Christians in the Roman Empire | |
| Constantine was the first Christian Emperor of Rome | |
| The most popular sport in Rome was chariot racing | Games |
| Gladiators fought criminals, animals and each other to the death | |
| 400,000 people and over a million animals were killed at the Colosseum | |
| The Romans also played board games, like "Latrunculi" | |
| And sports, such as wrestling, swimming, racing or boxing | |
| The most famous Roman invention is probably their numerals | Inventions |
| They also had covered sewers, 2,400 years before London | |
| Another invention was underfloor central heating | |
| This one might surprise you: the Romans invented concrete | |
| Romans did not invent roads but the ones they made are still here | |
| Gaius Julius Caesar was born in the year 100 BCE | Caesar |
| He owed his popularity to the conquest of Gaul | |
| Caesar started civil war by crossing the Rubicon River | |
| He invented the Julian Calendar on which our modern one is based | |
| He was murdered on the Ides of March 44 BCE by multiple stab wounds | |
