HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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Romans who did not hold office were scorned and mocked.
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Romans felt that the government officials were dishonest.
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Romans knew that being in government made people wealthy.
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Romans believed that serving in their government was important.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The aristocracy (wealthy class) dominated the early Roman Republic. In Roman society, the aristocrats were known as patricians. The highest positions in the government were held by two consuls, or leaders, who ruled the Roman Republic. A senate composed of patricians elected these consuls.
Detailed explanation-2: -Roman citizenship was acquired by birth if both parents were Roman citizens (cives), although one of them, usually the mother, might be a peregrinus (“alien”) with connubium (the right to contract a Roman marriage). Otherwise, citizenship could be granted by the people, later by generals and emperors.
Detailed explanation-3: -Roman citizens were divided into various assemblies which were distinguished by their form of block votes. The assemblies abstractly represented the whole Roman people, even if the blocks had little relation to population or participation.
Detailed explanation-4: -Polybius greatly admired the Romans, and the purpose of his work was to describe how Rome came to dominate the world.