Stage 6 Culture Review - Slavery in Ancient Rome

Slaves had no legal rights under Roman law.

• verum

• falsum

Slaves were thought to be property.

• verum

• falsum

Slaves always lived away from their masters.

• verum

• falsum

One could become a slave by being captured as a prisoner of war.

• verum

• falsum

Slaves could be set free before they were thirty.

• verum

• falsum

Romans rarely granted citizenship to freed slaves.

• verum

• falsum

Life for the country slaves was easier than life for the city slaves.

• verum

• falsum

Race alone signified slavery in ancient Rome.

• verum

• falsum

By the first century A.D., slaves made up 60 per cent of the total population.

• verum

• falsum

Romans occasionally freed slaves as a sign of friendship.

• verum

• falsum