Untitled spreadsheet - Sheet1 (3) Flashcards
Procuratores
Equestrian. Financial assistants in large; governor of small
Seed yield
6/10/2013
Decurional census in average origo
100000
Who became decuriones
freedmen and veterans (centurions in city; primipili to equestiran)
Governs Rome
Urban prefect
Army rationsunder Trajan
grain, meat, vin pique
Who do wives get stuff from
fathers not husbands
Why pay rather than accept conscription
wealth relies on coloni to farm
Social implications of deeds and renunciation
egalitarian
revenue/revenue for army
1.6bill, of which 800mil for military
What do towns do
Administration and market =/culture, social
Who made what grades of senator
Clarissimus<illustres
title
comes
Rations under SS
wine and oil (inflation–> need; loyalty)
Which sons could inherit
Those without fathers
Who taxes senate
Constantine, Constantius II
St. Basil
promotes monasticism but leverages connections and traditional oratory
Senate in late republic
1200 @ 400,000
Causes of oliganthropia
fewer sources of new wealth; women become branches; adoption as insurance; legacy hunters give advantage
What decreases tax base
Exemptions standard as a reward; church as rich landowner; fabricae gain increasing market share. And IN HOUSE TRADE IS NOT TAXED. NOR DOES IT REQUIRE MONEY
Why high gini coefficient in West
Relative endogamy, static, conservative; removed from senate=heat that causes percolation
Governs Italy
Praetorian prefect
Senate under Aug
600 @ 1,000,000
If every family had 3 children, how many would have (male) heirs
2/3/ heirs; 1/3 male
what do cities need to ask for
new taxes, public buildings
Number of D provinces
50+Italy–>100
scholarii
~cataphract
oversees aeraria
a rationibus
How was duty to family framed
as amicitia
chrysargon
tax on merchants initiated by C
iuridici
subordinate legal mags from II.i
What are Aes and solidi
Not a bimetallic system
Wealth of Melania
relatively poor husband had 1,500 pounds per annum; sells out of Italy in 40-410
curatores rei publicae
financial control over particular cities
Whom did D rely on
Equites
Army under D
400000
Equestrian under Aug
400000
Which governors more likely to have consular ancestors
Senatorial
Whom did C rely on
expanded senate
Who administers dioceses
Vicars
Which governors more likely to be consular
Imperial
develops regional identity
aes-using poor
Who commands military
regional duces and comites
Wealth of Seneca
300
rank
clarissimus<illustres
Three zones
Africa, Sicily, Egypt pay grain; imperial support troops; others pay cash
Why coloni
incentinve for stability–>masters responsible for poll tax–>competition over coloni–>obligation to remit + incentive to chain
Senate by Julian
2,000 in each
Options for landowners
Vilicus or locatio-conductio
civitates liberae et immunes
free from goves, taxation
honestiores divide
II.i; case by case basis
Why caste system
difficulties of indiction incentivize stability in all areas
Whom did C draw on for new senate
BOTH aristocrats and eques/provincials
Civitates foederatae
status determined by particular treaty
iugatio
expected productivity of land
Praep under D
Most military and judicial
Where was the border to social mobility
Below decuriones
Landholding pattern
Primary estate + various smaller; Millionaires dispered around district; Pliny (20) around Italy; Seneca (300m) around provinces–esp. West
Wealth of pliny
20
What keeps gini coefficient of East low
injection of new blood, new money.
status
senator, equest–>exemptions, privileges
civitates liberae
free from governors
capitatio
expected productivity of person
Prap under C
all provisions
Homogenize
Gold-using rich
what happens to decuriones
both real and opportunity cost increases
Richest senators (olympiodorus)
4,000 lbs per annum = 2* what Aspar paid to Atilla
