Roman Slavery Flashcards
what did they call slaves
speaking tool
we have _____ roman evidence for slavery
much
roughly ____% of population in italy were slaves
anout 1/? of the people in italy were slaves
what is a slave society
where slavery is essential, they relied on it
Categorised levels of slavery (number of slaves you have) to figure out how much you ______ in _____
owe in taxes
Slaves used for diff _____ such as a slave whose job it was to know everyones ______
tasks
names
Cicero had a slave whose only job was to know _______
synonyms
the souces of slaves
leaset common?
Medium?
Most common?
lest - war captives
medium - piracy
Most - bred slaves
With the approval of rome, the pirates would sail into an area _____ _____ and sell them in a diff region of Rome
inside rome
bred slaves; slave ______ is where they’d breed human beings and sell em
considered an ______
farm, industry
The slave markets trying to produce the ________ slaves, to sell at the ________ price
healthiest, highest
Slaves would line up at a market to be sold holding what?
a big board with everything about the slave (including bad behaviour, diseases)
If you didn’t disclose _______ with a slave, you could be _______
issues, sued
They would brag about how ______ and ______ the slaves were
docile and broken
why didnt slaves wear collars
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
__________ - 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
Silanianum
what was the purposed of silanianum
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
what is the meaning of “You cant open the dead man’s will” in relation to silanianum
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
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)
imperial
why did they protect slaves if not for ethical reasons?
To prevent someone from damaging someone else’s property
You abusing your slave would create class consciousness which could result in the slaves revolting
Had _________ which slaves could go to to appeal their treatment
shrines
When you sold a slave you could specify their ______ and say that you could only use the slave from a specific _______
activity
_________ is the roman term for freeing slaves
slaves could ______ their freedom of the owner could ______ to free them
manumission
earn, choose
A freed slave is immediately a ________ ________
roman citizen
it was possible to free slaves under certain _______
conditions (“you’re free but you can only work for me”)
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
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
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
_________ was a first generation salve
He had been fighting against the romans at a war captain, lost, enslaved, sent to a gladiatorial school
sparticus
sparticus’ slave revolt took place in a _________ school in southern italy
gladitorial
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
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
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
