What is you definition of a big city?
Rome at the end of the Roman era was a significant city and many of the buildings can still be viewed. I would think the short answer is to imagine the centre of any modern city and ancient Rome would match it in terms of area.
Rome was one of the greatest civilizations on Earth because of it's abundance of Natural Resources such as gold, silver, copper, and other minerals. But the only problem was that there was no water source, and I am sure you have heard of the Roman Aqueducts.
It was alsothe only city on earth to have more than a million residents. After rome fell it took 1000 years to have anoth city that size. There are many rwasons for the size, but the easiest answer is that everyone wanted to ive there. Knd of like new york in todays world...
It was one of the busiest cities that has ever existed, unsurpassed until modern history.
Of course it was busy in a Roman market place. People went shopping there. All markets are busy. The name of a Roman market was forum venalium.
Roman marketplaces were called fora (plural) a forum in the singular. They were exactly what their name connotes, areas in a city where goods and services were bought and sold. There were the conventional shops which were in buildings and mostly on market days there could be open air set ups and many fora had a covered portico where merchant could set up and money changers or lawyers do business. The courts or judgements were given in the open air fora and political speeches were imposed on the shoppers.
A Roman forum would have been in any and all Roman cities. A forum was a marketplace or a town square. Civic buildings, temples, and merchants could all be in the forum especially in a small town. The larger towns and cities generally had several fora with the civic forum being separate from the merchandising forum.
Roman priest , with a few exceptions, were not priests full time. Some of the priesthoods were elective and their terms were short. Many of the priests were also politicians and rich men with a busy business and private life.
Any marketplace was called a forum. The main one in the city of Rome was called the Forum Romanum and although it started out as a marketplace, it grew into a mainly civic center.
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The 'agora' was the Roman marketplace.
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its called the fora
The Roman place of assembly or marketplace was the Forum
Faneuil Hall has long stood as a marketplace in Boston, but it is difficult to say exactly when it official became a marketplace. The large building located by the waterfront was built in 1742 and since that time, it has always been a popular public meeting place where trade and batering made sense. Over the years the historical building evolved into the busy public marketplace it is today.
A vertical marketplace is a marketplace focused on an specific market niche.
The MarketPlace was created in 1939.
An eastern marketplace is called a "BAZAAR ".
The main ancient Roman market was the Forum Romanum. Although it started out as a market place, and morphed into the civic center of Rome, it was still considered a marketplace with a few high priced shops tucked around it.
It was the Law of the Twelve Tables. It was inscribed on twelve bronze tablets which were displayed at the Roman forum, which was a civic centre, not a market place.
There are no examples of Roman portrait painting. The Romans did not do paintings of canvas. Roman portraiture was sculptural; that is, busts. Roman paintings were frescoes. These were mural paintings executed on freshly-laid, wet lime plaster. They had all sorts of busy scenes and were not used for portraits.
The marketplace is on Sludge Street.