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Paragraph 4.2. Roman society. Rich. Rich Romans had a good life: Beautiful villas with nicely decorated rooms, Swimming pools and gardens . They showed off their wealth . They were carried around the city in a sedan chair . . Poor. A large part of society was poor .

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  1. Paragraph 4.2 Roman society

  2. Rich • Rich Romans had a good life: • Beautifulvillaswithnicelydecorated rooms, • Swimming pools andgardens. • Theyshowed off theirwealth. • Theywerecarriedaround the city in a sedan chair.

  3. Poor • A large part of society was poor. • A quarter of the 1.000.000 people in Rome werepoor. • Theydidn’t have jobs or worked as bearer or labourer on building projects. • Theylived in hovels (=krotten) or mud huts.

  4. People with a bit more money lived in a brickapartment building with 3 or 4 stories. • A whole family would live in 1 or 2 rooms. • No kitchen, theyboughttheir food in a snackbar or soupkitchen. • There was no running water or sewage (=riool) in the flats. • Feces (= uitwerpselen) were put in stonejars.

  5. Breadand games • To keep the peoplequietandtostaypopular the rulers gave the people ‘breadand games’. • 200.000 poorpeoplereceived free grainto make bread. • Rulershanded out money andorganised free horse races andother entertainment.

  6. 70-80 AD: The Collosseum was built in Rome. • A stadium with 50.000 seats. • Therewereall kinds of shows: • Fightswithlions, tigers, elephants, rhinos, etc. • Sea battles, when the collosseum was filledwith water.

  7. Most popularwere the gladiotorfights. • Prisoners of war weretrainedtofighteachotherwithswords. • The use was tospillblood.

  8. If the emporerwouldwatch, the gladiators wouldgreethim: • ‘Ave caesar, morituri te salutant’ • Hailemporer, thosewho are aboutto die saluteyou.

  9. When a loser of a fightsurvived, the audiencecoulddecidewhether he shouldbekilled or not. • Thumbs up: allowedto live • Thumbs down: die. • Winners becamefamousandrich.

  10. Trade • The Roman empire was a agricultural-urban society: agricultureandtrade in cities. • There was a lot of tradebetween the cities. • The pax Romana (=peace) was goodfortrade. • Alsogoodroadsand Roman coinshelped the trade.

  11. Roman money • 2 coins: sertertiusanddenariuswereused. • Allpeoplepaidwith the same money in the empire. • Traderssometimesbecameveryrich. • But families with ‘old money’ looked down on this. Theybelievedthatwealth was based on the amount of land andpossessions.

  12. Farmers had tosupplycitieswith food. • Rome gotitsgrainfrom Egypt andSicily. • Shipswouldbringitto Ostia, Rome’sharbour. • There, it was transferredtobarges (=aken)thatwouldbringitto the city, up the riverTiber.

  13. More productsthatwereimported in Rome: • SpicesandperfumefromArabia • Pearls from the Red Sea • Wood fromnorthern Europe.

  14. Farmers • In the beginning of the empire, most farmers were independent. • 3rd century BC: most farmers lost their farms. • Farmers wereawayfor long timesfighting wars. • Hannibal and his elephantsalsodestroyed a lot of farmland.

  15. The farmers movedto the citiesto start a new life. • Theybecame part of the growingproletariat. • The masses of peoplewho had no possessions. ( latin: proles)

  16. Land was important forwealth. • Rich families employed sharefarmers (= pachters) toworktheir land. • Theygot a part of the profit. • The richalso built latifundia. • Large farmsteads (=boerderijen) whereslavesworked.

  17. Slaves • 2nd and 1st century BC: therewere a lot of slaves in Italy. • These wereallprisoners of war, and Rome was fighting a lot of wars! • Most slavesworked on farms and in mines andstonequarries. (= groeven). • Othersworked in houses of the rich.

  18. EducatedGreekscouldbecometeachers or accountants. • Theydidn’t have anyrights, but someweretreated well. • A small groupcouldearn money tobuytheirfreedom.

  19. For most of them, life was miserable. • On the latifundia, theyweretreatedlikecattle. • Theysleptchained up in a pen. (=hok) • Thereweren’t a lot of uprisingsand the few werebeaten down withviolence.

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