HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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The courts often put too much emphasis on nature.
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The courts often were unorganized.
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The courts often ended in messy disputes and feuds.
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The courts often treated the poor unequally compared to the rich.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Poor Romans often sold themselves or their child into slavery. The disabled population of Rome had to rely on the goodwill of other people to survive. According to Ammianus Marcellinus, a Roman historian, the Roman poor lived in buildings’ crevices, tabernae, or vaults beneath theaters or circuses.
Detailed explanation-2: -If you were richer, you would live in larger single homes called domus. These usually had many rooms off an atrium which was a room in the centre of the house with an open roof. Poor Romans who lived in the countryside would live in shacks or cottages while rich Romans would live in large, sprawling villas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Rome had many problems at this time including frequent slave uprisings, questions of citizenship for allies, land distribution that forced the poor to move to the city and starve, and corrupt taxation by the publicani.
Detailed explanation-4: -After ruling the Mediterranean for hundreds of years, the Roman empire faced threats from inside and outside. Economic problems, foreign invasions, and a decline in traditional values undermined stability and security.