CIVILIZATION
ROMAN
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Question
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large and included extended family-mother is in charge
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large and included extended family-father is in charge
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separated into smaller family units
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Paterfamilias (pater familias) is Latin for father of the family. This title was held by the oldest male living in the household. The paterfamilias was considered the head of the family and had autocracy over the family clan. This authority also included the extended family.
Detailed explanation-2: -patria potestas, (Latin: “power of a father”), in Roman family law, power that the male head of a family exercised over his children and his more remote descendants in the male line, whatever their age, as well as over those brought into the family by adoption.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Roman family was called familia, from which the Latin word ‘family’ is derived. The familia could include the triad with which we are familiar, two parents and children (biological or adopted), as well as enslaved people and grandparents.