HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Detailed explanation-1: -On July 11 AD 212 Emperor Caracalla declared that all free men in the Roman Empire were given full Roman citizenship and all free women were given the same rights as Roman women, except the deditici, and united Roman society by issuing the Constitutio Antoniniana.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Roman Republic was a democracy. Its government consisted of the Senate and four assemblies: the Comitia Curiata, the Comitia Centuriata, the Concilium Plebis, and the Comitia Tributa.
Detailed explanation-3: -Prior to the republic, Etruscan kings who lived nearby in central Italy ruled Rome. Once the last of these kings was overthrown in 509 B.C.E., Rome’s wealthiest citizens established a republican government by creating various assemblies of Roman citizens.
Detailed explanation-4: -Caracalla’s reign became notable for the Antonine Constitution (Latin: Constitutio Antoniniana), also known as the Edict of Caracalla, which granted Roman citizenship to all free men throughout the Roman Empire. The edict gave all the enfranchised men Caracalla’s adopted praenomen and nomen: “Marcus Aurelius".