CLST 103 Chapter 4 ExamBank Solutions Manual (100% Correct)
Extension of Roman Empire at Augustus' time - Answers Atlantic to Caspian; English Channel to Sahara
Polybius - Answers historian and Greek-born slave who recorded the genius and virtues of the early Roman Republic
Publius Valerius - An...
Extension of Roman Empire at Augustus' time - Answers Atlantic to Caspian; English Channel to Sahara
Polybius - Answers historian and Greek-born slave who recorded the genius and virtues of the early
Roman Republic
Publius Valerius - Answers one of the first consuls to hold office after expulsion of the kings
Comitia Centuriata - Answers - set up by Servius Tullius
- comitia of people were divided into centuriae
- 193 centuriae with an electoral college
- 5 classis each with centuriae
- met outside the pomerium as centuriae has military implications
Centuriae - Answers - originally military units, organized by the census
- 1st 18 were equites
- centuriae of musicians, blacksmiths and attendants
classis - Answers - division of the centuriae based on wealth
- classis I was the wealthiest with 88 centuriae (almost completely monopolized the voting)
proletarii - Answers the poorest Roman class. too poor to be soldiers or pay taxes, the only thing they
were expected to do was have children (proles)
voting in comitia centuriata - Answers - started with higher classes
- 1 vote per centuriae
- ended when majority was reached
- often benefited the wealthier classes with voices of proletarii not heard
Comitia Tributa - Answers - divided voting units into 35 tribes (based on geographical locations) for an
electoral college
- assembly of the whole people
- called by curule magistrates
- elected curule aediles and quaestors
- could approve laws of the roman people
, Concillium Plebis - Answers - assembly of the plebs
- chose their own magistrates
- presided by a plebeian magistrate
- could enact a decree binding on the plebs; later could bind the rest of the Roman population
Hortensian Law - Answers brought an end to the conflict of orders in 287 BCE
rogatio - Answers "asking"
Senate - Answers - put together by Romulus as a body of advisers made up of the "best men" in the
state
- every legislation passed through here
- power consisted of the influence which it exercised over the magistrates
- assigned provincia to those with imperium and the size of their armies
consilium - Answers - described the body of friends and associates that any Roman republic life would
gather around himself
- senate was the state consilium in the republic
senatus consultum - Answers A decree from the Senate; the considered opinion of the Senate
senators - Answers - "patres" was given to the Senators
- comes from word "sennex" -- old man
- consuls chose a new Senate every year until censors took over and appointed them for life
the army - Answers - under the power of consuls
- men who avoided conscription could be sold as a slave
- early-mid republic conscripted 1-5th classis as they needed to provide own equipment
- a citizen militia rather than professionals
stipendium - Answers small amount given to members of the army who were taken away from their
normal livelihood to cover their expenses. Doubled during Caesar's reign
centurion - Answers Roman army officer (commanding a company of about 100 soldiers)
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