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1. What was the name of the "cold baths"?
2. What was the name of the sauna room?
3. Where would you find the Stabian Baths in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius?
4. At the ancient Roman port city of Ostia, there is a bath that is known for a certain number of "sages". What is the name of this bath?
5. The gymnasium in Roman baths was typically covered.
6. What is the name of the structure that helped to heat the baths through the use of a furnace type structure located below the floors of the baths, transferring heat through earthenware pipes leading up from the floor and between the walls?
7. Roman public baths were, on the whole, not divided into male and female areas.
8. Part of the daily function of Roman baths was exercise in the gymnasium. What particular types of games were incredibly popular in Pompeii in the years leading up to its demise?
9. A Latin phrase concerning the baths at Pompeii reads, "Balnea vina venus corrumpunt corpora nostra, sed vitam faciunt". What does this translate to?
10. The Roman baths at Pompeii were, let's say, "put out of business" after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. When did this eruption occur?
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