Roman Slavery Flashcards

(33 cards)

1
Q

what did they call slaves

A

speaking tool

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2
Q

we have _____ roman evidence for slavery

A

much

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3
Q

roughly ____% of population in italy were slaves

A

anout 1/? of the people in italy were slaves

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4
Q

what is a slave society

A

where slavery is essential, they relied on it

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5
Q

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

A

owe in taxes

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6
Q

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

A

tasks

names

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7
Q

Cicero had a slave whose only job was to know _______

A

synonyms

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8
Q

the souces of slaves

leaset common?
Medium?
Most common?

A

lest - war captives
medium - piracy
Most - bred slaves

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9
Q

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

A

inside rome

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10
Q

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

considered an ______

A

farm, industry

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11
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The slave markets trying to produce the ________ slaves, to sell at the ________ price

A

healthiest, highest

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12
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Slaves would line up at a market to be sold holding what?

A

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

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13
Q

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

A

issues, sued

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14
Q

They would brag about how ______ and ______ the slaves were

A

docile and broken

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15
Q

why didnt slaves wear collars

A

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

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16
Q

__________ - 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

17
Q

what was the purposed of silanianum

A

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

18
Q

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

A

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

19
Q

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)

20
Q

why did they protect slaves if not for ethical reasons?

A

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

21
Q

Had _________ which slaves could go to to appeal their treatment

22
Q

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

23
Q

_________ is the roman term for freeing slaves

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

A

manumission

earn, choose

24
Q

A freed slave is immediately a ________ ________

A

roman citizen

25
it was possible to free slaves under certain _______
conditions (“you’re free but you can only work for me”)
26
the 1st slave war happened around the time of __________ he way trying to break up the size of the _______ using his ______ _____ law
gracchus plantations free land
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
king, breath fire Eunus-Antiochus 400 slaves, town 3, 60-70 thousand took over first
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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
sicily roman citizens, unfairly abducted investigation/trial revolt revolt
29
_________ was a first generation salve He had been fighting against the romans at a war captain, lost, enslaved, sent to a gladiatorial school
sparticus
30
sparticus' slave revolt took place in a _________ school in southern italy
gladitorial
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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
200 hills train battle
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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
raid southern 60-120 thousand
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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 ________
large scammed by pirates crucified found