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15. How did most die at Pompeii?
caught on fire
evaporated by heat
suffocation from toxic gases and ash
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3. What was the approximate population of Pompeii?
20,000
60,000
40,000
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14. What does Pomponianus witness that night?
a tornado
a lot of birds flying
part of volcano explodes, pyroclastic flow, huge clouds of
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18. In the initial 18 hours of the eruption how many tons of debris fell?
10 tons
10 trillion tons
10 million tons
10 billion tons
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6. What is the Latin word for volcano?
fulminare
lux brumalis
no word for it b/c they didn't know what a volcano was
volcano
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16. What was the fate of Pliny the Elder?
sunk in a boat
fell and died because he was overwhelmed by the gases
had a heart attack
was murdered by his brother
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10. At what time does Admiral Pliny's fleet approach Pompeii?
5 pm
10 pm
5 am
midnight
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8. By mid-afternoon how many tons of pumice and ash have fallen on Pompeii?
100 billion tons
100 million tons
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19. How many people live near Vesuvius now?
3.5 thousand people
3.5 billion people
3.5 trillion people
3.5 million people
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4. What component of the fuller's shop was so valuable that there was once a tax on it?
urine to clean clothes
diamonds for the queen
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1. What kinds of historical evidence do we get from Pompeii?
whale songs lyrics
there's no evidence
casts of people, objects with inscriptions, Pliny's journal
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11. What new danger does the falling pumice and ash present?
roofs caving in
wild animal attacks
frostbite
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7. Why would Pliny the Elder be especially interested in the eruption of the volcano?
everyone knew he was crazy
studied nature and wrote about it
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