Roman Slavery

Question 1

what did they call slaves

Answer 1

speaking tool

Question 2

we have _____ roman evidence for slavery

Answer 2

much

Question 3

roughly ____% of population in italy were slaves

Answer 3

anout 1/? of the people in italy were slaves

Question 4

what is a slave society

Answer 4

where slavery is essential, they relied on it

Question 5

Categorised levels of slavery (number of slaves you have) to figure out how much you ______ in _____

Answer 5

owe in taxes

Question 6

Slaves used for diff _____ such as a slave whose job it was to know everyones ______

Answer 6

tasks

names

Question 7

Cicero had a slave whose only job was to know _______

Answer 7

synonyms

Question 8

the souces of slaves

leaset common?
Medium?
Most common?

Answer 8

lest - war captives
medium - piracy
Most - bred slaves

Question 9

With the approval of rome, the pirates would sail into an area _____ _____ and sell them in a diff region of Rome

Answer 9

inside rome

Question 10

bred slaves; slave ______ is where they’d breed human beings and sell em

considered an ______

Answer 10

farm, industry

Question 11

The slave markets trying to produce the ________ slaves, to sell at the ________ price

Answer 11

healthiest, highest

Question 12

Slaves would line up at a market to be sold holding what?

Answer 12

a big board with everything about the slave (including bad behaviour, diseases)

Question 13

If you didn’t disclose _______ with a slave, you could be _______

Answer 13

issues, sued

Question 14

They would brag about how ______ and ______ the slaves were

Answer 14

docile and broken

Question 15

why didnt slaves wear collars

Answer 15

ause the collar would have the number of slaves (how there’s more of them than non-slaves) which would give them a class-consciousness and cause revolts

Question 16

__________ - a law that says that if a an owner is murdered, all slaves post puberty owned by the master bad to be tortured for evidence as to how the murder was committed, and then killed

Answer 16

Silanianum

Question 17

what was the purposed of silanianum

Answer 17

Idea was to discourage anyone thinking they could murder their master - if anyone else did it, the slaves would tell on them because they were affected too

Question 18

what is the meaning of “You cant open the dead man’s will” in relation to silanianum

Answer 18

bc once you open it you have to enforce it - what did buddy guy wanted to
So they would kill all the slaves before opening the will

Question 19

the ______ era saw a growth in the protection of slaves passing laws to stop owners from cruel or obscene abuse of their slaves, as well as killing (but not for ethical reasons)

Answer 19

imperial

Question 20

why did they protect slaves if not for ethical reasons?

Answer 20

To prevent someone from damaging someone else’s property
You abusing your slave would create class consciousness which could result in the slaves revolting

Question 21

Had _________ which slaves could go to to appeal their treatment

Answer 21

shrines

Question 22

When you sold a slave you could specify their ______ and say that you could only use the slave from a specific _______

Answer 22

activity

Question 23

_________ is the roman term for freeing slaves

slaves could ______ their freedom of the owner could ______ to free them

Answer 23

manumission

earn, choose

Question 24

A freed slave is immediately a ________ ________

Answer 24

roman citizen

Question 25

it was possible to free slaves under certain _______

Answer 25

conditions (“you’re free but you can only work for me”)

Question 26

the 1st slave war happened around the time of __________

he way trying to break up the size of the _______ using his ______ _____ law

Answer 26

gracchus

plantations

free land

Question 27

Runaway slave arrived in sicily and who claimed to be a _______ and said he could _______ ______, do magic n shit

King Eunus-________ is what he called himself

______ slaves banded together and seized a _____

The number grew for ____ years till it got to _____-_____ thousand slaves
Roman army eventually ______ _____
this was the ______ slave war

Answer 27

king, breath fire
Eunus-Antiochus
400 slaves, town
3, 60-70 thousand
took over
first

Question 28

the 2nd slave war arises in ______
slaves claiming to be ______ citizens unfairly _______
A governor in sicily believes them enough to give them a _________ if they believed they were unjustly abducted
The slave owners complained and called a hault to the hearings which caused a _______
Another _______ broke out somewhere else in sicily

Answer 28

sicily
roman citizens, unfairly abducted
investigation/trial
revolt
revolt

Question 29

_________ was a first generation salve
He had been fighting against the romans at a war captain, lost, enslaved, sent to a gladiatorial school

Answer 29

sparticus

Question 30

sparticus’ slave revolt took place in a _________ school in southern italy

Answer 30

gladitorial

Question 31

Spartacus’ slave revolt :

______ gladiators got free, were able to arm themselves from a cart of weapons and ran into the _____
Slaves began coming to them in the hills and they would ______ them in ______ tactics

Answer 31

200
hills
train
battle

Question 32

Spartacus’ slave revolt :

They began to _____ cities travelling throughout ________ italy (looting on the way including women and children)
Grew to ______-_____ thousand slaves travelling around italy

Answer 32

raid
southern
60-120 thousand

Question 33

Spartacus’ slave revolt:

Became too ______ of a group and they had no where else to go
Spartacus tried to get them to sail to another part of the world where nothin was established but they were _________ by ________
All of spartacus’ army was _______ while alive, lined the highway in italy with the bodies
spartacus never ________

Answer 33

large
scammed by pirates
crucified
found