Society in Rome

*A _________ is a form of government in which voters elect officials to run the country

• republic
• oligarchy
• democracy
• theocracy

The Romans were

• polytheistic
• monotheirstic
• atheistic
• lovers of cheese

*In Ancient Rome, only _____ could vote

• male citizens
• women
• patricians
• plebians

*Most people living in the Roman Republic were _______

• NOT citizens
• citizens
• rich
• slaves

Slaves were often people who had been_______

• captured during battles.
• convicted of crimes
• poor
• unemployed

________ were farmers, merchants, & shopkeepers

• Plebeians
• Patricians
• Slaves
• Women

As the centuries passed, ________, freed slaves, joined the Plebeian class & became citizens

• Liberti
• Patricians
• oracles
• legions

The _______class was made up of the Roman nobility and upper class. They owned land and paid taxes, could vote & hold office.

• Patrician
• Plebian
• Slaves
• middle

The_______were the most powerful, but smallest social class

• Patricians
• Plebians
• Slaves
• Women

The Conflict of Orders or the Struggle of the Orders was a political battle between the __________ that lasted from 494 BCE - 287 BCE.

• Patricians and Plebeians
• Plebians and Slaves
• Women and Men
• Citizens and non-citizens