Subject Tasters JSS Y10 Definitions

BCE

Before Common Era

CE

Common Era

Patricians

Wealthy Upperclass

Plebeians

Poorer Lowerclass

Polytheistic

To believe in more than 1 god

Plinian Eruption

Extremely explosive eruptions which produce ash columns that extend into the stratosphere and spread out into an umbrella-like shape

Pyroclastic Flow

A fast moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter that flows along the ground away from a volcano down its slopes

Tesserae

Small square tile of stone glass, etc. Used in mosaics.

Mosaic

Picture or pattern created by piercing together many small, often irregular pieces of coloured material such as glass and stone.

Excavate

Removing earth to uncover something

Artefacts

Object made by humans of historical or cultural significance

Dark Tourism

Type of tourism that involves travel to a site where death, suffering, tragedy, disaster or violence took place

Unethical

Not morally correct

Panem et Circenses

Bread and Circuses