Terms Test #1

Question 1

Aqueduct

Answer 1

Tubes transporting water around the city

Question 2

Candidatus

Answer 2

Candidate of Roman office

Name after gown worn by them

Question 3

Civitas Foederatae

Answer 3

Citizenship for states and allies

Pay no taxes, but retain their independence

Question 4

Civitas Optimo Iure

Answer 4

Citizenship with the highest rights

Full citizenship of Roman State

Question 5

Civitas Sine Suffragio

Answer 5

Half-Citizenship

Without the right to vote

Question 6

Client

Answer 6

Someone who pays homage to a patron or benefactor

Question 7

Commercium

Answer 7

Business

The right of a Latin to own Roman land

Question 8

Conclave

Answer 8

Toilets

Question 9

Consuls

Answer 9

Chief annual magistrate of the Roman Republic

One of a pair

Question 10

Conubium

Answer 10

Marriage

The right to to enter into a marriage recognized by Roman law

Question 11

Curia

Answer 11

Central meeting hall / Senate house

Question 12

Decemviri

Answer 12

A Latin term meeting “ten men”

Designates any such commission in the Roman Republic

Question 13

Equites

Answer 13

Rich Political types

Question 14

Fasces

Answer 14

Bundle of rods surmounted by an axhead carried by official attendants before a Roman magistrate as a symbol of his authority

Question 15

Fortica

Answer 15

Toilet, with communal sponges

Question 16

Honorius

Answer 16

Roman Emperor

Question 17

Insulae

Answer 17

Apartments for poor

Question 18

Insula Felicles

Answer 18

Apartments taller than 5 stories

Question 19

Latifundia

Answer 19

Slave plantations

Question 20

Lictors

Answer 20

Official attendant who escorted and assisted a Roman Magistrate by carrying the Fasces in front of him

Question 21

Manumission

Answer 21

The act of slave owner freeing his or her slaves

Question 22

Migratio

Answer 22

The right to become a citizen of another city, simply by moving to that city

Question 23

Negotium

Answer 23

Non-leisure part of life

Question 24

Novus Homo

Answer 24

A new man

First member of a family to become a Roman Senator

Question 25

Paedogogus

Answer 25

A teacher or nanny

Question 26

Patricians

Answer 26

Referred to a group of ruling class families in ancient Rome, including both their natural and adopted members

Question 27

Patroni

Answer 27

The intended head of the organization or family being bestowed upon

Question 28

Peculium

Answer 28

Allowance of a slave

Question 29

Pilleus

Answer 29

Given to a slave when he is freed

looks like a dunce cap

Question 30

Plebs

Answer 30

The general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census

Question 31

Pomerium

Answer 31

Religious boundary outside of a Rome

Question 32

Otium

Answer 32

Leisure time

Question 33

Obsterix

Answer 33

Latin name for midwife

Question 34

Quaestor

Answer 34

Originally assistant to the consul
investigate murders
keepers of the public treasury
patricians later plebs

Question 35

Res Publica

Answer 35

Public affair

A form of political constitution no fully democratic, but not kingship

Question 36

Samnites

Answer 36

Bad relationship with Rome

Question 37

Sesterces

Answer 37

Roman Coin

Question 38

Tyrannoi

Answer 38

No succession

Not democracy but a bunch of people deciding who is the next king