About the Author
A former teacher and librarian,
Laurie J. Edwards is a freelance
author, editor, and illustrator.
In addition to having more than
2,300 magazine and educational
articles published, she is the author of
36 books in print or forthcoming under
several pen names.
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Africa, 4, 9
aqueducts, 14, 21
Byzantium, 24, 25, 26
Caesar, Augustus, 7, 21
Caesar, Julius, 7, 12, 21,
24
calendar, 21
Carthage, 9
cavalry, 9
chariot races, 18
Christianity, 23, 26–27
Circus Maximus, 18
Colosseum, 14, 18–19,
20
consuls, 6
curse tablets, 23
Diocletian, 24
emperors, 7, 10, 18, 22,
23, 24, 25, 26
Etruscans, 5, 22
Europe, 4, 25, 27
Germanic tribes, 24
gladiators, 18–19
gods, 22–23
Greeks, 5, 13, 20, 22
insulae, 15
Italy, 5, 6, 8, 24, 25
jurists, 7
Justinian, 26
lares, 22
Latin, 13, 26
legion, 9
Mediterranean Sea, 4, 9
Middle East, 4
Ottoman Turks, 25
Pantheon, 14
patricians, 6, 10
plebeians, 7, 10
Remus, 5
republic, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
21
Romulus, 5, 6
Senate, 6, 7, 10
sewers, 21
slavery, 9, 11, 12, 13,
16, 17, 19
Tarquin the Proud, 6
toga, 5, 16
tunics, 13, 16
Twelve Tables, 7
villas, 15
Visigoths, 24
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