Roman Social Classes
Social class of free slaves
What is Liberti?
Class that included men who were elected into their positions of Consul, Tribune, Censor, Praetor, Aedile, and Quaestor.
What are Magistrates?
A Roman Soldier
What is a Legionary?
In which war did Rome pour salt into the fields of Carthage so no crops would be able to grow.
What is the 3rd Punic War?
The Tiber River opens up into this body of water that surrounds Italy and Greece
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The largest social class made up of captured citizens from countries that Rome conquered
What is a slave?
Included 300 Patrician and Plebeian men who served for life. They nominated Consuls and proposed laws.
What is the Senate?
A group of 3000-6000 Roman soldiers
In which war did the Romans ram their ships into Carthaginian ships and ensnare them with grappling hooks to win Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica.
What is the 1st Punic War?
The river at the northern border of Rome
What is the Po River
the most upper class but smallest group of citizens that served in the military, could vote, and hold office
Included all citizen soldiers. They elected Consuls and Censors, and had the ability to declare war.
Non-citizen soldiers that were granted citizenship after 25 years of service
What is the Auxiliary?
In which war did General Scipio and his soldiers invade Africa, surround General Hannibal's troops, and defeat them by cutting off all of their resources.
Which is the 2nd Punic War?
The mountains that border Rome in the North and line the Po River
What are the Alps?
social class that was considered citizens who was made of merchants, farmers, and shopkeepers
What are Plebeians?
What is the Plebeian Council?
The soldiers main source of payment was the wealth taken from area that they conquered
What are spoils?
Carthage and Rome were fighting in the Punic Wars for...
What is the expansion of land surrounding the Mediterranean Sea?
non-citizen class filled of people who were often captured during battles
Included all male Patricians. They elected Aediles and Quaestors and acted as a court.
The leader that lead the Slave revolt against the Roman Army
The three men that overruled the Roman Republic in the first Triumvirate
Who are Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus?
The small river that runs west to east, north of the Tiber River
What is the Rubicon River?