The Social Structure Of Ancient Rome In The Twenty-First Century
Social
The social structure of ancient Rome was based on inheritance, belongings, wealth, citizenship and freedom. It was also based around men, women were defined by the social status of their fathers or husbands. Women didn’t have any really independence and were expected to look after the houses. The different classes were strict and enforced, different classes went as far as classes dressed differently. Although the style of clothes remained the same, a toga, jewelry, hair style, the materials and color were different with each class. Roman dress was a representation of the matron’s status and position, as the toga and stripes on the tunic were a sign of a man’s social position. Wealth and property were well-known routes to social advancement. The Roman army was a way out of poverty. By the first century, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the traditional social barriers.
Diversity …show more content…
Racism as we know it, was not much of a thing in Roman times.
Roman world was based less on racial characteristics than on the division between slave and free, citizen or non citizen. Eventually, citizenship was spread outside the city of Rome. Roman citizenship was a multifaceted issue and while it was not defined by nationality, various classes of citizenship existed. Your rights and duties mixed with the class of citizenship held. While the Roman Empire was in many ways multicultural, but not in the way of what we understand as equality. The Empire was also exceptionally tolerant of religious diversity. As the center of the Empire, the city of Rome was multicultural in that people of widely diverse cultural origins lived and worked there. The Emperors themselves were increasingly drawn from around the Empire over
time.
Why history Ancient Rome contributed very much to the establishment of law, art, literature, war, technology, architecture, religion, and language in the western society. The history of the Ancient Rome still has a key influence on the world today. The Romans were a bridge between the older cultures and the western civilization. The Roman greatness was marked by their willingness to receive other people’s ideas for their own purposes. Their architecture, technology, city planning, art and military planning are all as a result of other peoples influences. In fact there was little that they did which was their original idea. The total of what they did was unique to them and made them remarkable people in history. Christianity played a key role in civilization and the culture that is still in place in the western civilization.
Daily life
Daily life in a Roman city was completely dependent on one’s economic status. The city, however, remained a mixture of wealth and poverty, often existing side by side. The wealthy had the benefit of slave labor whether it was heating the water at the baths, serving them their evening meal, or educating their children. The poor, on the other hand, had no access to education, lived in run-down tenements, and sometimes lived off the charity of the city. Historians still argue about the fall of the empire - was it religion or the influx of barbarians? However, there are those who point to the poor of the city - the squalor, the rise of the unemployed, and increase in disease and crime - as a contributing factor to the western empire’s eventual demise.
The social structure of ancient Rome was based on inheritance, belongings, wealth, citizenship and freedom. It was also based around men, women were defined by the social status of their fathers or husbands. Women didn’t have any really independence and were expected to look after the houses. The different classes were strict and enforced, different classes went as far as classes dressed differently. Although the style of clothes remained the same, a toga, jewelry, hair style, the materials and color were different with each class. Roman dress was a representation of the matron’s status and position, as the toga and stripes on the tunic were a sign of a man’s social position. Wealth and property were well-known routes to social advancement. The Roman army was a way out of poverty. By the first century, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the traditional social barriers.
Diversity …show more content…
Racism as we know it, was not much of a thing in Roman times.
Roman world was based less on racial characteristics than on the division between slave and free, citizen or non citizen. Eventually, citizenship was spread outside the city of Rome. Roman citizenship was a multifaceted issue and while it was not defined by nationality, various classes of citizenship existed. Your rights and duties mixed with the class of citizenship held. While the Roman Empire was in many ways multicultural, but not in the way of what we understand as equality. The Empire was also exceptionally tolerant of religious diversity. As the center of the Empire, the city of Rome was multicultural in that people of widely diverse cultural origins lived and worked there. The Emperors themselves were increasingly drawn from around the Empire over
time.
Why history Ancient Rome contributed very much to the establishment of law, art, literature, war, technology, architecture, religion, and language in the western society. The history of the Ancient Rome still has a key influence on the world today. The Romans were a bridge between the older cultures and the western civilization. The Roman greatness was marked by their willingness to receive other people’s ideas for their own purposes. Their architecture, technology, city planning, art and military planning are all as a result of other peoples influences. In fact there was little that they did which was their original idea. The total of what they did was unique to them and made them remarkable people in history. Christianity played a key role in civilization and the culture that is still in place in the western civilization.
Daily life
Daily life in a Roman city was completely dependent on one’s economic status. The city, however, remained a mixture of wealth and poverty, often existing side by side. The wealthy had the benefit of slave labor whether it was heating the water at the baths, serving them their evening meal, or educating their children. The poor, on the other hand, had no access to education, lived in run-down tenements, and sometimes lived off the charity of the city. Historians still argue about the fall of the empire - was it religion or the influx of barbarians? However, there are those who point to the poor of the city - the squalor, the rise of the unemployed, and increase in disease and crime - as a contributing factor to the western empire’s eventual demise.