Government/Social Structure

Question 1

cursus honorum

Answer 1

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

Question 2

consul

Answer 2

two men - executives - elected yearly

Question 3

praetor

Answer 3

judges (8 elected yearly)

Question 4

quaestor

Answer 4

treasurers (20 elected yearly)

Question 5

aedile

Answer 5

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

Question 6

censor

Answer 6

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

Question 7

dictator

Answer 7

had absolute power in times of emergency; normally ruled 6 months maximum

Question 8

magister equitum

Answer 8

master of the horse/calvary - assistant to dictator

Question 9

senator

Answer 9

must be a praetor to enter - for life

Question 10

tribune

Answer 10

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

Question 11

patricians/optimates

Answer 11

highest class

Question 12

equites

Answer 12

business class

Question 13

plebeians/populares

Answer 13

lower class

Question 14

patron

Answer 14

patron

Question 15

cliens

Answer 15

client

Question 16

salutatio

Answer 16

visit of client to patrons house

Question 17

sportula

Answer 17

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

Question 18

deductio

Answer 18

patron leads client to forum

Question 19

paterfamilias

Answer 19

head of family (family includes wife, children, slaves, property)

Question 20

patria potestas

Answer 20

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