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A DAY AT THE BATHS
 Find the online reconstruction of the Baths
of Caracalla.
 Click on each numbered area or room.
 Then answer my cogent questions please.
 You will have to minimize or go back and forth
between lost empires & my questions.
1. ENTRANCE
 1. How many baths in total were there in Rome?
 2. The baths served as ----,---,----,---,--- (5 uses).
 3. How many acres?
 4. How many people could it accommodate at once?
2. TOILETS
 5. Since there wasn’t any tp what was used?
3. PALAESTRA
 6. purpose?
 7. What did Roman doctors think were the 4
ingredients of good health?
 8. What 5 activities might men participate in when
exercising in the palaestra?
 9. The author Juvenal mocked women who did what?
4. APODYTERIUM
 10. purpose?
 11. What is a capsarius?
5. TEPIDARIUM
 12. What is a strigilis?
 13. What 3 things did a strigilis remove from skin?
6. CALDARIUM
 14. Define hypocaust.
 15. How did the hot air get up above furnace level?
7. FRIGIDARIUM
 16. What was cold water thought to do?
8. ENTERTAINMENT
 17. List 3 activities.
9. ART
 18. List 3 types or kinds of art evident at the baths?
10. FOOD and WINE
 19. The shops and vendors sold what kinds of foods
and snacks? List 5.