Slavery in the Roman World Vocabulary

Slavery in the Roman World Vocabulary

These key terms focus on social structure.

Patriarchal

• Roman society was patriarchal

• It was ruled and controlled by men

Paterfamilias

• The male head of a family or household

Family and household

• the household included the family and the slaves and clients of the paterfamilias

• the Roman family included many generations: the oldest couple, their married sons with their wives and children,

  and their unmarried sons and daughters

Fill in the Blanks

Roman society was this because it was ruled and controlled by men.

Multiple Choice

This is the word for the male head of the household

• paterfamilias

• patron

• patriarchal

Patrons

• A protector, sponsor or benefactor of a client.

Patrons were expected to:

• give client legal representation and protection in the courts

• provide loans or cash payments if necessary and sometimes give land

• help client in business deals or marriage.

Client

• Freedmen became clients (liberti).

• Although dependents, they enjoyed some of the privileges of the family.

• They were granted protection from their patron in return for economic and political services.

Clients offered support to patrons

as need be. Expected to:

• support patron’s candidacy for office and vote for them

• support client’s views in the assemblies

• help client in certain economic matters such as dowries for daughters

Clientele

• refers to the relationship between a

  patron and a client in which both have responsibilities to the other

• had a large influence on politics

• a patron could also be a client of a more powerful patron

Open Ended

List 3 things clients were expected to do for their patrons.

Multiple Select

Which statement is not correct?

• A slave was considered a part of the household.

• A slave had the same privileges as the family.

• Some slaves were born within the household.

Multiple Choice

A patron could not also be a client.

• True

• False

manumission

• the process of freeing a slave

freedmen and women (liberti)

• people who had been slaves but who gained their freedom through manumission

servi

• slaves in the Roman republic and empire

Multiple Choice

What is manumission?

• The process of becoming a slave

• The process of buying a slave

• The process of freeing a slave

Fill in the Blanks

Slaves in the Roman republic or empire were called