Imperial Rome: words for a city's temples, rulers and trades
Crossroads shrines and capitolium, forum, curia and decurions, pistores and popinae: a provincial town of the 1st to 3rd centuries. Names only: a culture changes no figure of the city, it gives the sheet its words.
| On the sheet | In this culture |
|---|---|
| Its places of worship | Its crossroads shrines |
| Quarter of the places of worship | Around the temples |
| Quarter of the places of worship: where it lies | around the capitolium and the other temples. |
| Quarter of the powerful: where it lies | in the safest place, near the forum, the basilica and the curia where the council sits. |
| The market | The forum and the macellum |
| The market: where the market is held | at the forum, and at the macellum, the covered provisions market (meat and fish). |
| Clergy | Flamines and priests |
| Notables | Decurions (curiales) |
| Scribes and public writers | Scribes (scribae) |
| Physicians and healers | Physicians (medici) |
| Bakers and cooks | Bakers (pistores) |
| Brewers and taverners | Popina keepers (wine bars) |
| Merchants | Wholesalers and stallholders (negotiatores, mercatores) |
| Innkeepers | Inns (cauponae) and road stations (mansiones) |
| Money-changers | Money changers (argentarii, nummularii) |
Hear it
- The town: Ancient City Streets (album RPG Ambiences Vol. 7)
- The market: Ancient City Market (album RPG Ambiences Vol. 7)
- Around the places of worship: City Temple (album RPG Ambiences Vol. 6)
- The upper town: Manor Room in Wealthy District (on Patreon, Guardian tier)
- The fire trades: Medieval Industrial District (on Patreon, Guardian tier)
Other cultures
Medieval Europe, Medieval Arab-Persian world, Nahua (Aztecs), Inca (Quechua), Song China, Mali (Mande), Dwarven (fantasy)
Orders of magnitude for play: sourced figures and Hearth estimates together. Every source, and every figure still waiting for one, is listed in the builder under Sources.
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