HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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They providing free food and entertainment.
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They provided enough temples in which to worship.
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They provided free housing in apartment buildings.
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They provided jobs and travel throughout the empire.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Emperor Augustus was well aware of this risk and was keen to keep the poorest plebeians happy enough and reasonably well fed so that they would not riot. He began the system of state bribery that the writer Juvenal described as ‘bread and circuses’.
Detailed explanation-2: -A consensus-bound power The legitimacy of an emperor, hence the probability he had to maintain and transfer his power– whether by direct line of descent and/or by adoption –, depended on consensus, that is to say consent by the very people who were bound to the emperor by duty of obedience.
Detailed explanation-3: -For the inhabitants of Rome, the empire was a spectacle displayed to them by their emperor. And it was in the emperor’s interests to remind the inhabitants of the glories of empire and present himself as world ruler.
Detailed explanation-4: -"Bread and circuses” (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century CE, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.