Flashcards and recall.

Try this with Ancient History

1. Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
2. Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
3. Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.

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Recall topics

• Campania
• Why were the natural features of Campania both an advantage and a danger?
• Plinian phase (of the AD 79 eruption)
• Peléan phase (of the AD 79 eruption)
• Contrast the burial deposits at the two cities
• What is the debate about the date of the eruption?
• Pliny the Younger, Letter 6.16
• Assess the limitations of Pliny the Younger's letters as evidence
• The Bourbon excavations of 1738 and 1748
• Giuseppe Fiorelli
• Explain Fiorelli's plaster-cast technique
• What has changed about excavation practice since the late 20th century?
• How much of each site has been excavated, and why does it matter?
• What can streetscapes tell a historian?
• The forum of Pompeii
• The amphitheatre at Pompeii
• The public baths of Pompeii
• Describe the plan of a Pompeian atrium house
• The House of the Faun
• The Villa of the Papyri
• Thermopolium
• Pistrinum
• Garum and Umbricius Scaurus
• The tablets of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus
• Ordo decurionum
• Duumviri iure dicundo
• Programmata
• Freedmen (liberti) at Pompeii and Herculaneum
• The Augustales
• What is the evidence for slavery at the two cities?
• What does the evidence reveal about women's roles?
• What evidence exists for diet at the two cities?
• Graffiti as a source
• The Aqua Augusta and the castellum aquae
• Sanitation at Pompeii and Herculaneum
• What does skeletal evidence say about health?
• Lararium
• The Temple of Isis at Pompeii
• Tombs and necropoleis
• The Alexander Mosaic