Slavery in ancient Rome - Quiz
A) Senators B) Citizens C) Gladiators D) Foreigners
A) Only voting rights B) Full rights C) No rights D) Property rights
A) Caracalla B) Cicero C) Gaius D) Augustus
A) Granted full citizenship B) Imprisoned indefinitely C) Executed immediately D) Subject to reenslavement
A) AD 212 B) AD 100 C) AD 476 D) AD 312
A) Yes B) Only if they paid a tax C) Only if they lived in Rome D) No
A) Foreign merchants B) Roman senators C) Freed gladiators D) Enemies defeated in war
A) caveat emptor B) servi aut nascuntur aut fiunt C) carpe diem D) vini vidi vici
A) War creates all slaves B) All people are born free C) Slaves are either born or made D) Slaves are bought and sold
A) Gladiators B) Dediticii C) Vernae D) Freedmen
A) Inheriting property B) Political election C) Warfare D) Voluntary retirement
A) Counterfeiting coins B) Smuggling goods C) Tax evasion D) Piracy and kidnapping
A) Failing school B) Orphaned parents C) Child abandonment D) Running away
A) Sold themselves into slavery B) Lobbied to abolish slavery C) Fought against slaveholders D) Bought their freedom early
A) Giving them extra food B) Freeing them early C) Placing them in chains D) Promoting them to overseer
A) Piercing ears B) Wearing a ring C) Cutting hair short D) Tattooing or branding
A) Exiling them temporarily B) Torturing them to confess a crime C) Questioning them in public D) Asking them to swear an oath
A) A political senate B) A farming academy C) A gladiatorial school D) A public library
A) Ludus B) Domus C) Servi D) Villa
A) Against foreign armies B) With gladiators or wild beasts C) In naval battles D) In chariot races
A) Domus B) Ludus C) Dediticius D) Villa
A) Villa B) Ludus C) Verna D) Domus
A) It was entirely caused by warfare B) It is hard to determine and remains debated C) It was solely caused by child abandonment D) It is completely known and undisputed
A) Patricians B) Dediticii C) Plebeians D) Vernae
A) Obtaining freedom through well-defined paths B) Exemption from all forms of physical labor C) Becoming the head of a Roman household D) Automatic elevation to elite Roman status
A) Wealthy landowners in rural estates B) Foreign merchants traveling alone C) Members of the Roman senatorial class D) Children of poor families
A) 450 BC B) 396 BC C) 2nd century AD D) 71 BC
A) Routine census tracking B) Border patrols against foreign kidnappers C) Fugitive slave-hunting D) Inspection of marketplace transactions
A) The end of the Punic Wars B) The drafting of the Twelve Tables C) The time of Romulus D) The reign of Servius Tullius
A) Pliny the Elder B) Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome C) Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome D) Spartacus the rebel leader
A) 396 BC B) 71 BC C) 265 BC D) 451/450 BC
A) Dominus dominium B) Paterfamilias C) Cives Romani liberti D) Liberi gentes
A) Natural law B) Civil law C) The Twelve Tables D) The ius gentium
A) The conflicts during the late Imperial era B) The first two Punic Wars C) The wars against the Etruscan cities D) The campaigns of Servius Tullius
A) Paterfamilias B) Dominus C) Libertus D) Familia
A) The Twelve Tables B) The Sasanian Empire C) The ius gentium D) The treaty of Flamininus
A) Marcus Crassus B) Flamininus C) Hannibal D) Shapur I
A) The Sasanian Empire B) The Parthians C) The Romans D) The Greeks
A) About five years B) Over forty years C) Some twenty years D) Ten years
A) The Parthians B) The Sasanians C) The Greeks D) The Carthaginians
A) The commander Flamininus B) The emperor Hadrian C) The Augustan poet Horace D) The historian Shapur I
A) Marcus Crassus B) Valerian C) Shapur I D) Hadrian
A) Flamininus B) Shapur I C) Hannibal D) Marcus Crassus
A) Naqsh-e Rostam, southwest Iran B) Lake Trasimene C) Margiana in Bactria D) Rome
A) Potestas B) Postliminium C) Ius gentium D) Latrocinium
A) Servi hostium B) Latrocinium C) Bellum D) Limen
A) Potestas B) Postliminium C) Latrocinium D) Bellum
A) Ius gentium B) Postliminium C) Potestas D) Latrocinium
A) An enemy sovereign state B) One's own threshold C) A bandit camp D) A debt collector
A) Completely restored to full citizen rights immediately B) Permanently classified as a slave C) Stripped of all property forever D) Ambiguous until the lien was lifted
A) Valerian B) Hadrian C) Augustus D) Shapur I
A) Servus B) Dominus C) Res D) Mancipium
A) Homo B) Paterfamilias C) Persona D) Mancipium
A) Actio civilis B) Patria potestas C) Mancipatio D) Manumissio
A) Plebeians B) Domini C) Peregrini D) Liberi
A) The wealthiest merchant trader B) The senior military general C) The property-owning paterfamilias D) The chief magistrate of the city
A) His agricultural workers B) His domestic slaves C) His wife D) His younger children
A) Regina B) Mater C) Matrona D) Domina
A) Civis B) Persona C) Servus D) Homo
A) An emancipated freedman B) A perpetual minor C) A foreign visitor D) A convicted criminal
A) Cuius regio eius religio B) Lex talionis C) Servus non habet personam D) Homo homini lupus
A) He was banished from the Italian peninsula B) He could face penalties C) He received an automatic death sentence D) He was stripped of all Roman citizenship
A) Financial bankruptcy B) Mistreatment C) Old age or illness D) Insubordination
A) The slave became free B) The slave was granted land to farm C) The slave became public property of the state D) The slave was reassigned to a magistrate
A) Claudius B) Nero C) Antoninus Pius D) Constantine II
A) Being forced to fight in the arena B) Being crucified in public C) Being burnt alive D) Being banished to lead mines
A) Abolishing the institution of slavery entirely B) Raising taxes on slave transactions C) Protecting Christian identity D) Transferring all slave ownership to the church
A) Manumission B) Contubernium C) Vermae D) Potestas
A) The slave's owner B) A Roman jurist C) The emperor D) A freeborn man
A) Own property B) Marry C) Adopt children D) Divorce their master
A) Constantine B) Julius Caesar C) Nero D) Augustus
A) Patrician B) Senatorial C) Plebeian D) Imperial
A) Four B) One C) Three D) Two
A) In naval shipyards B) In gladiator schools C) In Roman Senate meetings D) On agricultural estates
A) Livestock B) Precious metals C) Real estate D) Foreign currency
A) Servus B) Patrimonium C) Pecus D) Dominus
A) A portion of the master's political power B) A small monetary peculium C) Ownership of the main house D) Legal representation in court
A) Stolen goods from the master's estate B) Gifts from a third party for meritorious services C) Bribes from Roman magistrates D) Mandatory tribute from neighboring farms
A) No B) Only during the Republic era C) Yes D) Only freedpersons could do this, never slaves
A) Political office B) Liberty C) A military commission D) Roman citizenship at birth
A) Considerable fortunes B) Large political empires C) Vast agricultural plantations in Greece D) Control over the Roman Senate
A) Emancipatio B) Manumissio C) Peculium D) Paterfamilias
A) An ordained bishop B) The censor C) The emperor Nero D) The magistrate holding imperium
A) Paterfamilias B) Roman citizen C) Junian Latin D) Chattel laborer
A) The Twelve Tables B) The edict of AD 316 C) Novella 142 D) lex Fufia Caninia
A) By the rod B) Within a church C) In a letter D) Among friends
A) Nero B) Augustus C) Constantine I D) Justinian
A) Africa B) Italy C) Hispania D) Gaul
A) Patronus B) Libertus C) Libertinus D) Praetor
A) Praeses B) Libertus C) Praetor D) Patronus
A) Projects B) Services C) Sworn stipulations D) Money
A) Lex Julia B) Lex Valeria C) Lex Aelia Sentia D) Lex Cornelia
A) Patroni B) Praetores C) Plebeians D) Libertini
A) Toga picta B) Toga praetexta C) Toga candida D) Toga virilis
A) Consul B) Quaestor C) Praetor D) Aedile
A) Early Imperial period B) Byzantine period C) Middle Republic D) Late Republic
A) Lucius Arlenus B) Narcissus C) Trimalchio D) Demetrius
A) Julio-Claudian emperors B) Flavian emperors C) Antonine emperors D) Severan emperors
A) Real estate development B) Cloak dealership C) Pottery manufacturing D) Grain trade
A) Pompeii B) Rome C) Cilicia D) Paphlagonia |
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