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History for Kids: Attila the Hun

For Students 3rd - 8th
History of Attila, leader of the Hunnic Empire during the 5th Century, known for his firece and ruthless ways in war. Site includes links to worksheets, activities and quizzes.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sestertius

For Students 9th - 10th
The sestertius or sesterce was an ancient silver coin during the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Coin of Vespasian

For Students 9th - 10th
Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Vespasian (November 17, 9 - June 23, 79), was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 69 A.D. until his death in 79 A.D. Vespasian was the founder of the short-lived Flavian dynasty, which ruled the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Accubatio

For Students 9th - 10th
The act of reclining at meals. The Greeks and Romans were accustomed, in later times, to recline at their meals; but this practice could not have been od great antiquity in Greece, since Homer always describes persons as sitting at their...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: House

For Students 9th - 10th
A Roman house. In early times the private houses of the Romans were very simple, showing little attempt at adornment or luxury, but in the later days of the republic and under the empire, the dwellings of the wealthy were costly and...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Signa Militaria

For Students 9th - 10th
Signa Militaria, military ensigns or standards. The most ancient standard employed by the Romans is said to have been a handful of straw fixed to the top of a spear or pole. Hence the company of soldiers belonging to it was called...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Caractacus and Claudius

For Students 9th - 10th
Caractacus was a British Chief that had fought very bravely against the Romans. He was brought to Rome with chains on his hands and feet and set before the emperor of Rome. The wife of Caratacus, who had also been brought a prisoner to...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Acinaces

For Students 9th - 10th
A Persian sword, whence Horace speaks of the Medus acinaces. The acinaces was a short and straight weapon; and thus differed from the Roman sica, which was curved. It was worn on the right side of the body, whereas the Greeks and Romans...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Balneum

For Students 9th - 10th
Balneum or balineum signifies, in its primary sense, a bath or bathing vessel, such as most Romans possessed in their own houses; and from that it came to mean the chamber which contained the bath. When the baths of private individuals...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Capsa

For Students 9th - 10th
A box for holding books among the Romans. These boxes were of cylindrical form. There does not appear to have been any difference between the capsa and scrinium, except that the latter word was usually applied to those boxes which held a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Paludamentum

For Students 9th - 10th
The cloak worn by a Roman general commanding an army, his principal officers and personal attendants, in contradistinction to the sagum of the common soldiers, and the toga or garb of peace. It was the practice for a Roman magistrate,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ancile

For Students 9th - 10th
Ancilia carried by Salii. The sacred shield carried by the Salii, and made of bronze. The original ancile was found, according to tradition, in the palace of Numa; and, as no numan hand has brought it there, it was concluded that it had...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Constantine the Great

For Students 9th - 10th
Emperor of Rome from 306 to 337. He is best known for being the first Christian Roman emperor.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Parma

For Students 9th - 10th
A round shield, three feet in diameter, carried by the celites in the Roman army. Though small, compared with the Clipeus, it was so strongly made as to be a very effectual protection. This was probably owing to the use of iron in its...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cameo

For Students 9th - 10th
Cameo, a term applied to gems of different colors sculptured in relief. The art of engraving on gems boasts of high antiquity, having been practised with various degrees of success by the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Balneum

For Students 9th - 10th
Balneum or balineum signifies, in its primary sense, a bath or bathing vessel, such as most Romans possessed in their own houses; and from that it came to mean the chamber which contained the bath. When the baths of private individuals...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bath

For Students 9th - 10th
Interior of bath in ancient Rome.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bronze Helmet Ornament

For Students 9th - 10th
Decorations placed on the helmets of the Roman soldiers.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Capitoline and Cloaca Maxima

For Students 9th - 10th
The Capitoline Hill is a Roman hill between the Forum and the Campus Martius. The Cloaca Maxima was one of the world's earliest sewage systems. "The Capitoline and Cloaca Maxima. A restoration." -Allen, 1890
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Castra

For Students 9th - 10th
The system of encampment among the romans was one of singular regularity and order.