WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Citizenship varied greatly. The full citizen could vote, marry freeborn persons, and practice commerce. Some citizens were not allowed to vote or hold public office, but maintained the other rights. A third type of citizen could vote and practive commerce, but could not hold office or marry freeborn women.

Detailed explanation-2: -Under Roman law, enslaved people had no personal rights and were regarded as the property of their masters. They could be bought, sold, and mistreated at will and were unable to own property, enter into a contract, or legally marry. Most of what we know today comes from texts written by masters.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rights. Roman citizens enjoyed a variety of specific privileges within Roman society. Male citizens had the rights to vote (ius suffragi) and hold civic office (ius honorum, only available to the aristocracy).

Detailed explanation-4: -The colonists could exercise full political rights in Rome and elect their own magistrates, who had limited judicial and financial power. By the late 2nd century bc, colonies were established not only for defensive purposes but for offering work to landless freedmen and veterans.

Detailed explanation-5: -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-6: -There were two types of people in ancient Rome-citizens and non-citizens. Roman law changed several times over the centuries on who could be a citizen and who couldn’t. For a while, plebians (common people) were not citizens. Only patricians (noble class, wealthy landowners, from old families) could be citizens.