WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Roman cities were lined with marketplaces where craftsmen created and sold their goods. These shops were small rooms on the lower floor of a house that the craftsmen either owned themselves or rented as a space to sell their goods.

Detailed explanation-2: -A forum (Latin forum “public place outdoors", plural fora; English plural either fora or forums) was a public square in a Roman municipium, or any civitas, reserved primarily for the vending of goods; i.e., a marketplace, along with the buildings used for shops and the stoas used for open stalls.

Detailed explanation-3: -All Roman towns and cities had a forum. As Rome expanded and new towns were planned and built or existing towns were Romanised the Forum was a central square placed at the crossroads of two main roads of the town – the Decumanus (East/West) and the Cardo (North/South).

Detailed explanation-4: -These farmer’s markets were called Macellum, a word that is still in use in the Italian language today but refers only to slaughterhouses.