Romans

Question 1

What is the time period for Romans?

Answer 1

43 AD to 410 AD

Question 2

Who made the laws in Roman?

Answer 2

Emperor

Question 3

What crimes did the laws deal with?

Answer 3

All crimes from assassination to theft

Question 4

What did the laws also try and do except from deal with crimes?

Answer 4

Keep Rome and Britain a clean and better place to live

Question 5

When and what was the first recorded laws?

Answer 5

Twelve Tables in 450BC

Question 6

What book brought all the different laws together by Emperor Justinian in AD533?

Answer 6

Digest of the Roman Laws

Question 7

How would criminals be caught in early Rome?

Answer 7

Victims have to caught them themselves as there was no police force

Question 8

When did Emperor Augustus introduce the police force?

Answer 8

AD6

Question 9

What did the vigiles do?

Answer 9

Patrolled at night but main duties was to prevent and put out fires

Question 10

What did the urban cohorts do?

Answer 10

Stopped riots but did not patrol

Question 11

What did the praetorian guards do?

Answer 11

Only used in emergencies to protect the Emperor

Question 12

What did the aediles do?

Answer 12

Kept the streets clean

Question 13

What was the core of policing?

Answer 13

Riot troops

Question 14

In Britain the task of policing was taken on by who?

Answer 14

Legionaries

Question 15

What were some of the minor crimes?

Answer 15

Theft and selling underweight bread

Question 16

How was minor crime dealt with?

Answer 16

The victim had to find the criminal, collect the evidence and summon the accused to a magistrates court. A judge was then chosen and made a decision based on the evidence put forward from both sides.

Question 17

What were the major crimes?

Answer 17

Murder

Question 18

How was major crime dealt with?

Answer 18

Anyone could bring a case to court for trial, both sides gave evidence and the jury decided the verdict. The magistrates then decided the sentence.

Question 19

How were crimes dealt with in Britain?

Answer 19

Same as in Rome but the victims took the evidence to the local centurion who summoned the accused to court. Magistrates dealt with minor crimes in local courts but all important cases were sent to the Governor’s courts in the chief towns.

Question 20

Were the punishments harsh or fair? What were the reasonings for this?

Answer 20

Harsh to deter potential criminals and also was much cheaper than employing more police or keeping people in prisons

Question 21

Most violent punishments were reserved for what crime?

Answer 21

Rebelling against the Empire

Question 22

What crimes resulted in ordinary Roman citizens to be put to death?

Answer 22

Arson, attacking the Emperor, robbing temples and stealing farm animals

Question 23

What punishment would ordinary Roman citizens get for minor crimes?

Answer 23

Whipping, repaying the cost of the goods and confiscation of property

Question 24

What punishment would Nobles get if they committed a serious crime?

Answer 24

Sentenced to death but allowed to go into exile to avoid execution

Question 25

What happens to a slave when they commit a crime?

Answer 25

Put to fight in Colosseum as gladiators, all slaves in a household crucified if one of them murdered or attempted to murder their master, slaves could give evidence at trails only if they had been tortured first.

Question 26

What happens to legionaries when they run away in battle?

Answer 26

They face execution and 1 in every 10 men from their legion is chosen and also executed