Social Inequality In Roman History

While Rome’s government did change, its class system remained the same throughout the civilization in terms of their lifestyle and jobs. The Roman Republic had class systems based originally on descendants from powerful families and clans (Haber Patricians). Patrician was the name given to wealthy citizens in Rome and they only made up ten percent of the population of Rome (Haber Patricians). Their jobs consisted of holding office and running the military. The poor were called plebeians. They were the farm workers, artisans, merchants, and those who were in the military fighting as soldiers. Those plebains in the military did own land, however unlike the patricians the plebeians were not able to send others in their place due to a lack of money. The plebeians, however, did create a position to represent them in government, this position was called the tribune (Haber Plebeians) for them to be able to voice their needs. As the Republic ended, the plebeians rioted hoping to gain more representation in government. However, the opposite happened and the patricians were able to maintain their control through maintenance of the social gap. At the beginning of the Empire, with government structure shifting so that the Senate is the highest power and new reforms being made, such as hierarchical seating in the theater, the large gap between the classes remained unchanged. This era of peace in Rome was called Pax Romana and it helped to further divide the social classes although

Compare the extent to which Mid Republican Rome (264BC-133BC) and the Qin and Han Chinese Dynasties were ‘Slave Societies’?

The ancient Romans of the later empire claimed to be a republic, meaning that they claimed to be a government where the power was held by the people and their elected representatives rather than a monarch with unlimited power. In reality, that was only somewhat true in ancient Rome. Technically all male citizens had a say, but in reality, only the opinions of the rich men mattered. This brings up the question, who are considered rich men? The people who fit this category were mostly made up of the generals and high-ranking soldiers of the military. This was why the Roman military played such a major role in the election of the later emperors in ancient Rome. The military made up a vast majority of the Roman citizens who were eligible to vote,

"Income Inequality and the End of the Republic." Daily Kos. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2016.

Rome, Greece, and England all had a big part in helping the development of democracy. Rome and Greece had the biggest influence on U.S democracy, But Greece had the biggest influence in democracy by just having the idea of demokratia “rule by the people.”

During the fall of Rome, there was massive inequality which had already existed in Rome. For example, there were many barbarians that were fed to wild animals. This shows the corruptness in the society of Rome to be able to feed a live human to an animal. Very little change is the sake of the lower class citizens these people still had to farm as they were before and where still considered to be the common labors or workforce. The only people who seen a large change in their daily lives were the elites which was less than 3% of the

Attitudes towards technology in the Han and Roman empires differed greatly in terms of importance to life. The Roman Empire thought that technology was beneficial, but not necessary. The Romans were divided by social classes and concentrated more on mathematics and sciences, looking down on people who performed labor and used technologies for laboring. The Han Empire had a more positive attitude towards manufacturing and labor. The Han relied heavily on agriculture and thought that tools and water systems were necessary to reduce labor.

In Ancient Rome, the Romans had their own Roman Republic. The Roman republic reasonably met the common good. The way they did this was that they didn’t fully meet the common good in all areas, but in other areas they did.

Through this letter, “On the Treatment of Slaves", Seneca believes slaves are the same as any typical person. He states, “They’re slaves,’ No. They’re human beings…But they share the same roof as ourselves… They’re friends, humble friends…” Seneca is relaying the message that slaves are the same as Roman citizens. It does not matter where you come from or how you live, we are all equal people, who work hard to complete the desired tasks in life. The Roman people were “arrogant, harsh and insulting” to slaves by degrading them with every chance they took.

Titus Maccius Plautus is one of the most renowned ancient Roman comic playwrights whose artful work, Pseudolus, reflected the comprehensive dimensions of the social views, religious beliefs, and lifestyles during later 3rd to early 2nd Centuries BCE. Simultaneously, the successful characterization in Plautus’s Pseudolus have a profound influence on and added unique value to the future western drama creation. Accordingly, the play was adapted to the movie A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, which was mixed traditional ancient Roman life comedy with modem dramatic plots and idea in order to create a sense of identification for the contemporary audience.

Also, those leaders made sure that everybody, rich or poor, knew what the laws were by engraving the laws into metal tablets, then hanging them up in the marketplace for everyone to see. Those metal tablets with the laws engraved on them were called the Twelve Tables. They were called the Twelve Tables because there were twelve different sections of laws. Later on in the Roman Empire, there was an emperor, Emperor Justinian I, who created another set of laws. These laws were called Corpus Juris Civilis, or Body of Civil Law, and they were the footing for juridical practice in, “Continental Europe, as well as in Ethiopia, and most former colonies of European nations, including Latin America.” (Crystalinks Rome Law). That is why I gave the Roman Republic an A for meeting the common good for the rule of

When the gladiators were fighting the had no choice whether they wanted to or not the gladiators were usually prisoners or prisoners they had captured from other countries also if a gladiator was injured the audience decided what to do with them whether to kill them or let them live but even if they let them live they wouldn 't give them any medical attention no matter how badly they were hurt. Slaves were any other group of people who didn 't have many rights. After a slave was sold their master could treat them as badly as they wanted with few consequences. Which was totally wrong since they 're just another person and today the laws are really different. One last group of people that didn 't have many rights were the women. In Ancient Rome the common woman’s job was to take care of the house and the children and you would have to clean the house with brooms that were made out of twigs and animal hair and you would have to have the house in order before their husband returned. If you were a wealthy woman you basically had the slaves do everything for you. As you can see the protection of rights was not very good in

Kamm, A. (2009). The Romans: Life: Slavery. The Classics Pages website. Retrieved on October 24, 2015 from http://www.classicspage.com/

As attested by Kamm, A., & Graham, A. (2014), the Roman act of conquering of Carthage, Macedonia and Greece in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC made different in some way, what was once a great ease and comfort and privilege for the ruling elite into having superior strength, influence, or authority factor driving both social and economic policies for the Republic as a whole. The arrival of a large number of slaves during this time period first was a sign of great wealth and power, but later make unstable an already fragile Roman class system. As stated by Scheidel, W. (1997), farms originally ran by small business families during the whole period of Italy were soon eaten greedily up and restore to a former place by large number of slave running plantations owned by the aristocratic elite. Cheaply slave labor replaced work for the common man and the roles of those not employed increased massively to epidemic proportions. These problems had a great unstable effect on the social system which had a direct role in the bequest of the