Social+Divisions+in+Rome

Men/Women - Paterfamilias -oldest living males..had absolute authority over families - Women always moved under head of paterfamilias or husband’s paterfamilias - Though, they did gain more personal protection and economic freedom overtime Slave/free - economy in Rome was based off of slaves - owners could free slaves or kill slaves, no restrictions on them - slaves were educated - did unappealing jobs like mining rock, ect. Land/no Land - Soilders got paid in land when they win territory - Insentive to join an army - Opportunity for peasants to start over in another land
 * trusted advisors
 * far more educated than some freemen
 * Difference between a society with slaves and a slave society
 * Society with slaves mean that people had slaves but are not dependent on slaves (their society can function without use of slaves)
 * Slaves society means that their society will not be able to function without use of slaves (dependent on slaves)
 * Rome is a slave society

ROMAN CLASSES:
 * in Rome inequality was accepted
 * Senate: 300 men
 * Equites: horsemen could afford horses
 * Freeborn: don’t own land
 * Freedmen: freed slaves
 * Slaves