ancient rome 2

Question 1

What is a patriarchy?

Answer 1

a society in which men have all the power

Question 2

Who was in charge of roman families?

Answer 2

men

Question 2

What could men do?

Answer 2

vote or hold public office, fight in wars, perform important ceremonies

Question 2

Who was at the head of every family?

Answer 2

senior male (paterfamilias)

Question 3

What did the paterfamilias do?

Answer 3

Made all decisions

Question 4

What eventually limited the power of the paterfamilias?

Answer 4

the twelve tables

Question 5

What was it like for boys from poorer families?

Answer 5

They received little education and often couldn’t read or write

Question 5

What did poorer boys do instead?

Answer 5

Went out o work beginning at an early age

Question 6

What was it like for boys from wealthier families?

Answer 6

They received education at school

Question 7

Who were Roman teachers?

Answer 7

Often Greek slaves

Question 8

What did they learn at school?

Answer 8

reading, writing, arithmetic, public speaking

Question 9

How were mistakes punished with?

Answer 9

a beating

Question 10

What happened to boys at the age of 14?

Answer 10

Boys destined for government jobs continues their education with private tutors at home

Question 11

At what age were boys considered to be men and registered as roman citizens?

Answer 11

17

Question 12

What were roman women a subject to?

Answer 12

The authority of men

Question 13

What could women eventually do?

Answer 13

own property and manage their own business and finances (manage husband’s business)

Question 14

What were women prohibited from?

Answer 14

Voting

Question 15

What was a woman with powerful husbands like?

Answer 15

They had some political influence

Question 16

What was a woman’s main role in Rome?

Answer 16

To be a good wife and mother

Question 17

Was it possible for women to have paying jobs?

Answer 17

yes

Question 18

What was a wealthy family household like?

Answer 18

Women managed household and its finances, slaved did all the physical labor

Question 18

Was it possible for girls from wealthy families to receive some education at home?

Answer 18

yes

Question 19

What did girls mainly learn?

Answer 19

household skills to prepare them for married life

Question 20

What were most marriages like?

Answer 20

Had little to do with love but were arranged to benefit the family

Question 21

What was divorce like?

Answer 21

It was easy and acceptable

Question 22

Why did some ambitious politicians remarry many times?

Answer 22

To gain support from important families

Question 23

Who was at the top of society?

Answer 23

Aristocracy

Question 24

What was the aristocracy?

Answer 24

a small group of wealthy patricians who owned most of the land and dominated the government

Question 25

What were the majority of citizens?

Answer 25

plebians

Question 26

What were plebians like?

Answer 26

some were well-off and owned farms and businesses, but many were very poor

Question 27

Who was at the bottom of Rome's population?

Answer 27

slaves

Question 28

Where did the wealthiest families live in?

Answer 28

luxurious country estates

Question 29

Where were the luxurious country estates built?

Answer 29

Around elegant courtyards, and decorated with works of fine art

Question 30

Who made the houses?

Answer 30

Slaves

Question 31

Where did most poor romans live?

Answer 31

In small farms

Question 32

What did the wealthy often do with their money?

Answer 32

Used it to buy up land and create huge farms worked entirely by slaves

Question 33

Where did farmers come looking for work?

Answer 33

The city

Question 34

What was life like for farmer in cities?

Answer 34

They lives in overcrowded buildings and worked at manual labor for very low wages

Question 35

What did the poor use to eat?

Answer 35

cheap pottery bowls to eat porridge or bread with vegetables

Question 36

Why did even wealthier plebians rely on restaurants for hot food?

Answer 36

Only the largest houses had kitchens

Question 36

What was the plebians' representative assembly?

Answer 36

the council of plebs

Question 37

What did slaves do in Rome?

Answer 37

They worked at manual labor, from household chores to construction work or agriculture

Question 38

When did the plebians achieve political equality

Answer 38

when the council of plebs was allowed to make law for all citizens

Question 39

What did skilled slaves do?

Answer 39

They might be craftspeople

Question 40

What did educated slaves do?

Answer 40

They might be teachers, doctors, or managers of their master's business

Question 41

What were the worst slave jobs?

Answer 41

In the mines or factorie

Question 42

What did excessive punishments lead to?

Answer 42

rebellion

Question 43

Who led the most famous rebellion?

Answer 43

Spartacus

Question 44

What did Spartacus do?

Answer 44

For 2 years, his slave army fought the roman soldiers and controlled large areas of the countryside

Question 45

What happened when Spartacus was finally defeated?

Answer 45

6000 of his followers were executed as a warning

Question 45

What was the roman religion based on?

Answer 45

a pantheon

Question 46

What is a pantheon?

Answer 46

a group of many gods

Question 47

What names did the gods have?

Answer 47

roman names

Question 48

What were the gods believed to have?

Answer 48

Human traits, and to control areas of roman life

Question 49

who was the king of gods?

Answer 49

jupiter

Question 50

Who was mars?

Answer 50

the god of war

Question 51

Who was venus?

Answer 51

goddess of love

Question 52

Why did the pantheon grow?

Answer 52

To include the gods od people Rome conquered

Question 53

What did romans worship their rulers as after their death?

Answer 53

gods

Question 54

What claims made rulers unpopular?

Answer 54

to be living gods

Question 55

What did almost every home have?

Answer 55

a shrine where the paterfamilias would make daily offering to the gods that protected his family and house

Question 56

What did the roman calendar have?

Answer 56

many religious festivals

Question 57

Why did the government fund any of the festivals?

Answer 57

To ensure that the gods granted Rome good harvests or victories in war

Question 57

What kind of qualities did roman gods have?

Answer 57

qualities most prized by the romans

Question 58

What qualities did the romans value?

Answer 58

qualities that would help them achieve success

Question 59

What traits did they value?

Answer 59

discipline, strength, loyalty

Question 60

What is gravitas

Answer 60

having gravitas means being solemn and serious

Question 61

What did roman qualities help them acoomplish

Answer 61

remarkable achievements in war, politics, law, commerce, engineering

Question 62

What were roman qualities known as

Answer 62

the roman way