Ancient Rome
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1. Family
1.1. Father head of family
1.2. Could sell family as slaves
1.3. Married children off
1.4. Women not citizens
1.5. Women could inherit property
2. Food
2.1. Breakfast-bread dipped in wine
2.2. Lunch-cold food e.g. Salad
2.3. Dinner-cena
2.4. Patricians had three courses (see book)
2.5. Poor Romans are bread and lentils
2.6. Government handout-the dole
3. Empire
3.1. Controlled using provinces
3.2. Governors ran provinces
3.3. Paid high grain taxes
3.4. Good roads and sea routes
3.5. Good communication and trading
4. Education
4.1. School or slave
4.2. Reading, writing, arithmetic
4.3. Oratory and Greek and Latin writers
4.4. Wax boards, not paper
4.5. Girls learned instruments and Greek
5. Arts
5.1. Mosaics
5.2. Glass blowing
5.3. Engineering
5.4. Murals
6. Religion
6.1. Lares, household gods
6.2. Polytheist religion
6.3. Didn't tolerate Christianity
6.4. Burials
6.4.1. Urns
6.4.2. Catacombs
6.4.3. Forum
7. Patricians
7.1. Rich people
7.2. Lived in domus' and villas
7.2.1. Atrium
7.2.2. Impluvium
7.2.3. Peristyle
7.2.4. Mosaics and murals
7.3. Could run for senate
8. Plebeians
8.1. Poor people
8.2. Could run for senate
8.3. Lived in flats, like apartments
8.3.1. Insulae
8.3.2. Made of wood
8.3.3. Thermopolia,too dangerous to cook in flat