HISTORY
CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA
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Question
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The word “ ____ “ came from the Latin word civitas.
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city
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town
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country
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village
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: City word is derived from Latin word “civitas” which originally meant citizenship or community member.
Detailed explanation-2: -civitas, plural Civitates, citizenship in ancient Rome. 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).
Detailed explanation-3: -Civitas means the whole body of cives, or members, of any given state.
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