Origins & treatment
True or False: Children of slaves were born free?
False
Define a latifundia
Large agricultural estates (farms)
What types of slaves were highly valued in Roman society?
Intellectual or educated slaves - gained trusted/important roles in the household and also taught Roman youths.
How were slaves viewed in society? (what was their status essentially)
As the property of their master with VERY FEW rights and a low status.
Where did Spartacus come from?
Thrace
Identify three ways people became enslaved.
Captured through warfare, by slave traders or pirates.
For not paying debts or as punishment for a crime (even one committed by a family member).
Some were found (abandoned children)
Others were bred (by previously owned slaves).
Name given to the "pocket money" or wealth that a slave had (though technically in death this belonged to the master)
Peculium
How could some female slaves gain their freedom?
By giving birth to many children who became slaves of the master
During which festival did the slaves not have to work, could gamble, wear their masters clothing etc.
Saturnalia
What is the name of the Roman praetor who defeats Spartacus?
Marcus Licinius Crassus
Who were the vernae and why may they have been treated differently?
They were the slaves that were born within the household; they seem to have been cared for more as it was likely they were the children of free males within that household.
Identify 5 different types of slaves (Think= occupations / industries)
Domestic/Household
Agricultural/Farming
Mining/Quarrying
Commerce/Industry
Demolition/Construction
Education
Gladiators
How could manumission be gained by a slave?
•Either granted by a master (sometimes in a will)
•Purchased themselves using a peculium
What were the words used, in Latin, for Slaves and Masters?
Servus and Dominus
What was the name of the road on which the slave rebels were crucified?
The Appian Way