Holy Cross College

Humanities and Social Sciences

Year 7

TASK 4: Ancient Civilisations Museum Display

INQUIRY ORGANISER

Step One
Use your class learning to choose an artefact or building to make a model of. Your
model must relate to one of the following:
 daily life
 warfare
 death and funerary customs

The Ancient Civilisation my class has studied is:

Ancient Rome

The topic my artefact relates to is:colosseum, buildings

I have chosen this topic because: it is the easiest to research because it has lots of website
about the colosseum and the research is more important than actually building the model.

Step Two

Create some questions!

Use the command words to draft some questions to help guide

your inquiry:

List your questions in the spaces below:

1. When was the colosseum built = The famous Roman amphitheater, the
Colosseum, was built between A.D. 70 and 72 and was enjoyed by Roman citizens
during the height of the Roman Empire.
2. Who built and created the colosseum = The Colosseum's construction was ordered
under the rule of Vespasian. After Emperor Vespasian died, it was completed by
his sons Titus and Domitian. The physical construction work was done by Jewish
slaves, who were overseen by Roman architects, engineers, and artists.
 3. Where was the colosseum built = it was built in Rome, Italy
4. How was the colosseum built = materials: travertine blocks were used for load-
bearing pillars, and external walls, stairs, and radial walls were constructed from
blocks and bricks of tufa.
5. What is the colosseum used for = After ceasing to be used as an arena for combat
and hunts, at different points in history the Colosseum has been used as a
cemetery, a place of worship, for housing, workshops for artisans and merchants,
the home of a religious order, a fortified castle, and most recently as a tourist
attraction.
6. Why is the colosseum important to Ancient Rome = The Colosseum was built as
part of an imperial effort to revitalize Rome after the tumultuous year of the four
emperors, 69 CE. As with other amphitheatres, the emperor Vespasian intended
the Colosseum to be an entertainment venue, hosting gladiator fights, animal
hunts, and even mock naval battles.

Step Three

Collect your sources!

In the boxes below, paste images or links to each of the primary and secondary sources you
have collected. This could be an image from a museum of an artefact, or a whole website
about your topic.

Primar Secondary Sources

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Source
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1. 2. https://colosseumrometickets.com/colosseum-history/

3. 4. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/colosseum
5. https://www.google.com.au/url?
sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjplJTA5674AhWT8zgGHUFVD9kQFno
ECB0QAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalgeographic.org%2Fencyclopedia%2Fcolosseum
%2F&usg=AOvVaw0J9KJ0JvJEPTJJ9N2v0cfJ

-https://romecolosseumtickets.tours/colosseum-arhitecture-rome/

.https://www.thecolosseum.org/facts/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Colosseum
Step Four

Explain the usefulness!

In the spaces below, write down how each source is useful for your inquiry.

E.g. Source 1 is useful because it helps me understand… or Source 2 helps me answer…

1. Source 1 is useful because it has a lot of information to use for the colosseum.
2. Source 2 is useful because it has a lot of information to use for the colosseum.
3. Source 3 is useful because it has a lot of information to use for the colosseum.
4. Source 4 is useful because it has a lot of information to use for the colosseum.
5. Source 5 is useful because it has a lot of information to use for the colosseum.
6. Source 6 is useful because it has a lot of information to use for the colosseum.
7.
8.
9.

Step 5

Take notes from the written sources!

Your teacher will provide you with the note taking template below. Use the note-taking
template below to take notes from your written sources. Use a new template for each
source. An example has been done for you.

Mummification, “it was believed that the
afterlife heart contained the soul, so
the weighing of the heart was
a kind of final judgement”
P 242 Textbook
 The Book of the Dead; had spells and prayers to
help person on journey to afterlife.
 Usually buried with the Dead person
Step 6

Draft your museum information plaque!

In the space below, draft the information to go with your model.

Title of your model, my name, what is the colosseum and what was it used for, when was the the
colosseum built, where was the colosseum built, who built the colosseum and who used it, how
was the colosseum built, why is the colosseum important to Ancient Rome.

The colosseum
By esset
The Colosseum is an amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors of the Roman Empire.
It is also called the Flavian Amphitheatre. It is an elliptical structure made of stone, concrete, and
tuff, and it stands four stories tall at its highest point. It measures 620 by 513 feet (189 by 156
metres) and could hold as many as 50,000 spectators. The Colosseum was famously used for
gladiatorial combat.The colosseum is a building with scenes of thousands of hand-to hand combats
between gladiators, of contests between men and animals, and many larger combats.

The famous Roman amphitheater, the Colosseum, was built between A.D. 70 and 72 and was
enjoyed by Roman citizens during the height of the Roman Empire. The colosseum it was built in
Rome, Italy. The Colosseum's construction was ordered under the rule of Vespasian. After Emperor
Vespasian died, it was completed by his sons Titus and Domitian. The physical construction work
was done by Jewish slaves, who were overseen by Roman architects, engineers, and artists, the
colosseum was used by gladiators and animals basically everyone who fought or came to watch the
fight.

Materials to build the colosseum: travertine blocks were used for load-bearing pillars, and external
walls, stairs, and radial walls were constructed from blocks and bricks of tufa, and some techniques
used were: Arch, Vault, Dome, the arch and the vault, which were destined to carry Roman
engineering into a development directly away from that of ancient Greece, who preferred "post-
and-lintel" building methods to arches and domes.

The Colosseum was important to Ancient Rome because was it was apart of an imperial effort to
revitalise Rome after the tumultuous year of the four emperors, 69 CE. As with other
amphitheatres, the emperor Vespasian intended the Colosseum to be an entertainment venue,
hosting gladiator fights, animal hunts, and even mock naval battles.
Step 7

Plan and build your model!

The images below might help inspire you for what you might like to build!
The materials I will need are: cardboard hot glue
gun and a marker