Stage 26 - Culture Questions

Read pages 116-120 and completely answer the following questions.

1.  Identify legions, cohorts, and centuries by their number of men and relation to one another.

2.  Identify the following types of soldiers:

praefectus castorum:

legatus:

tribunus laticlavius

tribuni angusticlavii:

aquilifer:

centurion primus pilus:

centuriones:

optiones:

signifer:

tessarius:

cornicen:

3.  Describe the economic, social, and political differences between a legionnaire, a centurion, the primus pilus, the legatus, and the tribunes.

 Agricola

1.  What do the two inscriptions on page 118 tell us about Agricola?

2.  Agricola was born in the year ________ in the province of ___________.

  3.  What was his father’s place in the Roman Empire?

4.  What does the section tell us about Agricola’s early life, before he came to Britain?

5.  What major event did Agricola witness in 60 AD as a tribūnus? How might this have affected him?

  6.  What happened in the year 70 AD in vitā Agricolae?

  7.  How did Agricola attempt to “Romanize” Britain?

  8.  What effect do you think “Romanization” had on the non Roman British? Can you think of a modern parallel?

9.  Identify these places and terms with regard to the vitā Agricolae.

a.  Forum Iuliī

b.  rhētor

c.  tribūnus

d.  Aquitania

e.  the fortress at Chester