HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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Women in ancient Rome had no power because they could not vote or run their own businesses.
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Women did not have a lot of power or rights in ancient Rome, but sometimes they could influence those who did.
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Women in ancient Rome were often overlooked by historians because they did not accomplish anything worth recording.
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Women in ancient Rome only held power in their homes, where they held complete control and served as the heads of their households.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which statement best describes the role of ancient Roman women in the domus? Women stood as the heads of the household, or domus, which was the one place where she could exercise a lot of power.
Detailed explanation-2: -Women and the law Although the rights and status of women in the earliest period of Roman history were more restricted than in the late Republic and Empire, as early as the 5th century BC, Roman women could own land, write their own wills, and appear in court.
Detailed explanation-3: -Roman women were not allowed to own property or control their own finances-all family inheritances and dowries were transferred to the husband when a woman married. Nor could women participate in politics-they could neither vote nor run for political office.
Detailed explanation-4: -Women in ancient Rome, whether free or enslaved, played many roles: empress, priestess, goddess, shop owner, midwife, prostitute, daughter, wife and mother. But they lacked any voice in public life. They also lacked a voice in history.