Slavery in ancient Rome - Quiz
A) Gladiators B) Foreigners C) Senators D) Citizens
A) Full rights B) Property rights C) No rights D) Only voting rights
A) Caracalla B) Cicero C) Gaius D) Augustus
A) Imprisoned indefinitely B) Granted full citizenship C) Subject to reenslavement D) Executed immediately
A) AD 212 B) AD 100 C) AD 312 D) AD 476
A) Yes B) Only if they lived in Rome C) Only if they paid a tax D) No
A) Roman senators B) Enemies defeated in war C) Foreign merchants D) Freed gladiators
A) carpe diem B) servi aut nascuntur aut fiunt C) caveat emptor D) vini vidi vici
A) All people are born free B) Slaves are bought and sold C) Slaves are either born or made D) War creates all slaves
A) Vernae B) Gladiators C) Freedmen D) Dediticii
A) Voluntary retirement B) Inheriting property C) Warfare D) Political election
A) Piracy and kidnapping B) Tax evasion C) Smuggling goods D) Counterfeiting coins
A) Running away B) Failing school C) Orphaned parents D) Child abandonment
A) Lobbied to abolish slavery B) Fought against slaveholders C) Sold themselves into slavery D) Bought their freedom early
A) Placing them in chains B) Freeing them early C) Promoting them to overseer D) Giving them extra food
A) Tattooing or branding B) Cutting hair short C) Wearing a ring D) Piercing ears
A) Questioning them in public B) Torturing them to confess a crime C) Exiling them temporarily D) Asking them to swear an oath
A) A public library B) A political senate C) A farming academy D) A gladiatorial school
A) Villa B) Domus C) Servi D) Ludus
A) With gladiators or wild beasts B) In naval battles C) Against foreign armies D) In chariot races
A) Ludus B) Villa C) Dediticius D) Domus
A) Ludus B) Verna C) Villa D) Domus
A) It is completely known and undisputed B) It is hard to determine and remains debated C) It was entirely caused by warfare D) It was solely caused by child abandonment
A) Dediticii B) Patricians C) Plebeians D) Vernae
A) Becoming the head of a Roman household B) Obtaining freedom through well-defined paths C) Automatic elevation to elite Roman status D) Exemption from all forms of physical labor
A) Wealthy landowners in rural estates B) Children of poor families C) Members of the Roman senatorial class D) Foreign merchants traveling alone
A) 396 BC B) 71 BC C) 450 BC D) 2nd century AD
A) Routine census tracking B) Inspection of marketplace transactions C) Border patrols against foreign kidnappers D) Fugitive slave-hunting
A) The end of the Punic Wars B) The time of Romulus C) The drafting of the Twelve Tables D) The reign of Servius Tullius
A) Pliny the Elder B) Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome C) Spartacus the rebel leader D) Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome
A) 451/450 BC B) 71 BC C) 265 BC D) 396 BC
A) Dominus dominium B) Paterfamilias C) Liberi gentes D) Cives Romani liberti
A) The Twelve Tables B) Natural law C) Civil law D) The ius gentium
A) The campaigns of Servius Tullius B) The wars against the Etruscan cities C) The first two Punic Wars D) The conflicts during the late Imperial era
A) Familia B) Dominus C) Libertus D) Paterfamilias
A) The ius gentium B) The Twelve Tables C) The treaty of Flamininus D) The Sasanian Empire
A) Flamininus B) Marcus Crassus C) Hannibal D) Shapur I
A) The Parthians B) The Sasanian Empire C) The Greeks D) The Romans
A) Some twenty years B) About five years C) Ten years D) Over forty years
A) The Greeks B) The Parthians C) The Carthaginians D) The Sasanians
A) The historian Shapur I B) The emperor Hadrian C) The Augustan poet Horace D) The commander Flamininus
A) Marcus Crassus B) Hadrian C) Shapur I D) Valerian
A) Hannibal B) Flamininus C) Shapur I D) Marcus Crassus
A) Lake Trasimene B) Margiana in Bactria C) Rome D) Naqsh-e Rostam, southwest Iran
A) Latrocinium B) Ius gentium C) Potestas D) Postliminium
A) Limen B) Servi hostium C) Bellum D) Latrocinium
A) Postliminium B) Bellum C) Latrocinium D) Potestas
A) Postliminium B) Potestas C) Latrocinium D) Ius gentium
A) A bandit camp B) One's own threshold C) An enemy sovereign state D) A debt collector
A) Stripped of all property forever B) Ambiguous until the lien was lifted C) Completely restored to full citizen rights immediately D) Permanently classified as a slave
A) Valerian B) Shapur I C) Hadrian D) Augustus
A) Res B) Dominus C) Servus D) Mancipium
A) Mancipium B) Homo C) Paterfamilias D) Persona
A) Actio civilis B) Manumissio C) Patria potestas D) Mancipatio
A) Peregrini B) Liberi C) Domini D) Plebeians
A) The wealthiest merchant trader B) The senior military general C) The property-owning paterfamilias D) The chief magistrate of the city
A) His wife B) His younger children C) His domestic slaves D) His agricultural workers
A) Mater B) Domina C) Regina D) Matrona
A) Civis B) Homo C) Servus D) Persona
A) A perpetual minor B) A convicted criminal C) An emancipated freedman D) A foreign visitor
A) Servus non habet personam B) Homo homini lupus C) Lex talionis D) Cuius regio eius religio
A) He could face penalties B) He was stripped of all Roman citizenship C) He was banished from the Italian peninsula D) He received an automatic death sentence
A) Insubordination B) Old age or illness C) Financial bankruptcy D) Mistreatment
A) The slave became public property of the state B) The slave was reassigned to a magistrate C) The slave was granted land to farm D) The slave became free
A) Claudius B) Antoninus Pius C) Constantine II D) Nero
A) Being crucified in public B) Being forced to fight in the arena C) Being burnt alive D) Being banished to lead mines
A) Abolishing the institution of slavery entirely B) Protecting Christian identity C) Raising taxes on slave transactions D) Transferring all slave ownership to the church
A) Contubernium B) Vermae C) Potestas D) Manumission
A) A freeborn man B) The slave's owner C) A Roman jurist D) The emperor
A) Own property B) Adopt children C) Marry D) Divorce their master
A) Nero B) Constantine C) Augustus D) Julius Caesar
A) Patrician B) Imperial C) Plebeian D) Senatorial
A) Four B) Two C) One D) Three
A) In Roman Senate meetings B) In gladiator schools C) On agricultural estates D) In naval shipyards
A) Livestock B) Precious metals C) Foreign currency D) Real estate
A) Patrimonium B) Dominus C) Servus D) Pecus
A) A portion of the master's political power B) A small monetary peculium C) Ownership of the main house D) Legal representation in court
A) Bribes from Roman magistrates B) Gifts from a third party for meritorious services C) Mandatory tribute from neighboring farms D) Stolen goods from the master's estate
A) Only freedpersons could do this, never slaves B) Only during the Republic era C) Yes D) No
A) Liberty B) Roman citizenship at birth C) A military commission D) Political office
A) Considerable fortunes B) Large political empires C) Control over the Roman Senate D) Vast agricultural plantations in Greece
A) Manumissio B) Peculium C) Emancipatio D) Paterfamilias
A) The magistrate holding imperium B) An ordained bishop C) The emperor Nero D) The censor
A) Roman citizen B) Paterfamilias C) Chattel laborer D) Junian Latin
A) The edict of AD 316 B) The Twelve Tables C) lex Fufia Caninia D) Novella 142
A) In a letter B) By the rod C) Within a church D) Among friends
A) Nero B) Augustus C) Constantine I D) Justinian
A) Africa B) Gaul C) Italy D) Hispania
A) Libertinus B) Praetor C) Patronus D) Libertus
A) Patronus B) Praeses C) Libertus D) Praetor
A) Services B) Projects C) Money D) Sworn stipulations
A) Lex Valeria B) Lex Aelia Sentia C) Lex Cornelia D) Lex Julia
A) Patroni B) Libertini C) Praetores D) Plebeians
A) Toga virilis B) Toga picta C) Toga candida D) Toga praetexta
A) Consul B) Aedile C) Praetor D) Quaestor
A) Middle Republic B) Late Republic C) Early Imperial period D) Byzantine period
A) Demetrius B) Narcissus C) Trimalchio D) Lucius Arlenus
A) Severan emperors B) Antonine emperors C) Julio-Claudian emperors D) Flavian emperors
A) Real estate development B) Cloak dealership C) Pottery manufacturing D) Grain trade
A) Paphlagonia B) Cilicia C) Pompeii D) Rome |
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