WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Women in Ancient Rome Didn’t Have Equal Rights. They Still Changed History. Marble statue of Livia, wife of emperor Octavian Augustus, from the 1st century AD. Ancient Rome was a macho society, often misogynistic, where women did not enjoy equal citizen rights.

Detailed explanation-3: -Women could be honoured for being priestesses or family members and had some citizen rights. Slaves, by contrast, had no legal or social standing at all and could be treated as beasts of burden by their masters.

Detailed explanation-4: -Roman law, like other ancient systems, originally adopted the principle of personality-that is, that the law of the state applied only to its citizens. Foreigners had no rights and, unless protected by some treaty between their state and Rome, they could be seized like ownerless pieces of property by any Roman.

Detailed explanation-5: -While slavery never completely disappeared from ancient Roman society, its position in the Roman economy shifted at the beginning of the period called Late Antiquity (14 CE–500 CE) . At this time, the slave system of the Roman world adjusted to a new category of labor .