20. Q. What was the height of the buildings that covered much of the extent of ground within the limits of the city of ancient Rome? A. Six and eight stories in height. 21. Q. At what has the population of Rome at its maximum been estimated? A. From two to six million souls. 22. Q. For what was a large area reserved, inclosed between the Quirinal hill and the river? A. Exclusively to public buildings, and here there was an almost unparalleled accumulation of costly, solid, and magnificent architecture. 23. Q. What is now one of the chief spectacles in modern Rome to excite the wonder and awe of the tourist? A. The Coliseum, a roofless amphitheater for gladiatorial exhibitions, built of stone, and capable of seating more than eighty thousand spectators. 24. Q. From what people were the Greeks and Romans descended? A. The Aryan or Indo-European, a people having its original home in Central Asia. 25. Q. How did the Romans conquer and govern the world? A. By being conquerors and governors. 26. Q. For what did the Romans all live? A. For the state. 27. Q. What was the one business of the state? A. Conquest, in a two-fold sense: first, subjugation by arms; second, consequent upon subjugation, rule by law. 28. Q. What is said of the cultivation of letters by Rome? A. Letters she almost wholly neglected until her conquest of the world was complete. 29. Q. In what way did the Romans make peace with other nations? A. They never made peace but as conquerors. 30. Q. What course did the Romans take in regard to whatever superior features they found in the military scheme of other nations? A. They did not hesitate to transfer and adopt it into their own. 31. Q. What nations in turn enjoyed the honor of furnishing to the Romans the model for their sword? A. The Spaniards and the Gauls. 32. Q. From whom did Rome learn how to order her encampment? A. From Pyrrhus. 33. Q. From what people did Rome learn to build ships? A. From the Carthaginians. 34. Q. As soon as Rome had conquered a people what did she make that people? A. Her ally. 35. Q. What phrase has Rome made a proverb to all time of false dealing between nations? A. “Punic faith.” 36. Q. At whose expense did Rome do her conquering and her governing? A. At the expense of the conquered and the governed. 37. Q. What effect did war have upon the wealth of Rome? A. She never herself became poorer, but always richer, by war. 38. Q. What was all that enormous accumulation of public and private resources which made Rome rich and great? A. It was pure plunder. 39. Q. What is a momentous fact in regard to the population of the Roman Empire? A. That in the end over one-half the population were slaves. 40. Q. Notwithstanding the injustice of Rome, how did she govern as compared with other ancient nations? A. She governed more beneficently than any other ancient nation.