classic test topic 3

Question 1

what is a patrician

Answer 1

upper class

Question 2

what is a senator

Answer 2

highest class

Question 3

how many senators at a time

Answer 3

600

Question 4

how much money for senators

Answer 4

1,000,000 sesterces

Question 5

four ways to leave the senatorial

Answer 5

1. offend the emperor
2. caught doing business/ crime
3. lose their money
4. do not have an heir

Question 6

benefits of being a senator

Answer 6

1. cursus honorum - highest jobs in society
2. wear broad purple stripe
3. special seating at games

Question 7

cons of being a senator

Answer 7

1. cannot do business
2. are not paid

Question 8

what was an equites

Answer 8

Knight- own horses

Question 9

how much worth of property should an equites own

Answer 9

400,000 sesterces

Question 10

what can equites wear

Answer 10

toga with narrow purple stripe and gold signet ring

Question 11

benefit of equites

Answer 11

can do buisness

Question 12

what is a plebian

Answer 12

lower classes- common - most amount of people

Question 13

plebian job example

Answer 13

cook, weaver, hairdresser

Question 14

what is a roman citizen

Answer 14

protected by the law and have rights

Question 15

cursus honorum patrician

Answer 15

quaestor, curile aedile, praetor, consul

Question 16

two jobs a consul can do

Answer 16

censor: count people and have veto power
dictator: in case of crisis take power

Question 17

cursus honorum plebian

Answer 17

tribune, plebian aedile

Question 18

who cannot be a citizen?

Answer 18

slaves

Question 19

how were roman women treated

Answer 19

as minors only half citizen. Their purpose was to raise the children, stay at home and could not vote

Question 20

three types of slaves and examples

Answer 20

domestic slave- cooking
industrial slave- road mending
public slave- looking after shrine/ temple

Question 21

6 ways to be freed from being a slave

Answer 21

1. buy your freedom
2. outstanding act
3. long and faithful service
4. marry them
5. instructions in will
6. become too old, feeble and expensive

Question 22

freedmen rights that slaves did not have

Answer 22

• enter games for free
• become a citizen
• grain ration
• become Augustulus
• can vote
• own property
• can marry
• buy slaves (property)
• make a will

Question 23

Latin term for slaves

Answer 23

libertus

Question 24

3 methods of freedom

Answer 24

1. included in the census list
2. touching the head of a slave with a rod in the legal ceremony in front of witnesses/ judge and stating that the master did not own the slave
3. freeing him/ her in the will

Question 25

citizen benifits

Answer 25

enter sporting games for free
allowed to vote
protected by law
grain rations

Question 26

manumission meaning

Answer 26

released from the hand

Question 27

augustales term came from….

Answer 27

Emperor Augustus

Question 28

what did augustales pay for

Answer 28

games in towns, buildings to be repaired or built

Question 29

what could an augustales wear?

Answer 29

toga with a border and could display symbols of magistrate

Question 30

augutales also held ….. duties

Answer 30

religious

Question 31

what was the role of the Augustales

Answer 31

preserve the honor of the emperor

Question 32

what 5 ways could someone become a slave

Answer 32

1. born a slave
2. prisoner of war
3. exposed baby that a slave trader found
4. kidnapped by pirates
5. committed a crime

Question 33

why would slaves be made to wear a tag

Answer 33

so that they would be found out if they ran away

Question 34

punishment for running away of slaves

Answer 34

branding

Question 35

what did the freedmen have to wear

Answer 35

pileus hat