Government/social Structure

Question 0

Consul

Answer 0

Two men - executives - elected yearly

Question 1

Cursus honorum

Answer 1

Course of honors - steps you take to make it to the highest jobs (bottom to top: quaestor, praetor, consul)

Question 2

Praetor

Answer 2

Judges (8 elected yearly)

Question 3

Quaestor

Answer 3

Treasurers (20 elected yearly)

Question 4

Aedile

Answer 4

In charge of roads and public games (4 elected yearly)

Question 5

Censor

Answer 5

2 elected every five years for 18 months - in charge of taking the census and public morals

Question 6

Senator

Answer 6

Must be a praetor to enter - for life

Question 7

Tribune

Answer 7

10 elected yearly - only plebeians can run - can veto the senate

Question 8

Patricians/optimates

Answer 8

HIGHEST CLASS

Question 9

Equites

Answer 9

Business class

Question 10

Plebeians/populares

Answer 10

Lower class

Question 11

Patron

Answer 11

Patron

Question 12

Cliens

Answer 12

Client

Question 13

Salutatio

Answer 13

Visit of client to patron’s house

Question 14

Sportula

Answer 14

Cold food basket given to client when he is received by patron in his atrium

Question 15

Deductio

Answer 15

Patron leads clients to forum

Question 16

Paterfamilias

Answer 16

Head of family

Question 17

Patria protestas

Answer 17

Power (of life and death in early times) of paterfamilias over family