Western Civilization - History Of European Society

CHAPTER OUTLINE I. Introduction II. The Transformation of Roman Society A. Social Conflict: The Reforms of the Gracchi B. The Fa ...

Social, Political, and Economic Structures of Imperial Rome 81 The recipients of this new wealth invested much of it in Italy. S ...

82 Chapter 5 Illustration 5.1 Plan of a Typical Villa.This villa at Boscoreale near Pompeii was the headquarters of a typical w ...

Social, Political, and Economic Structures of Imperial Rome 83 use of political influence. His motives included both moral outra ...

84 Chapter 5 proposal, though not original, was straightforward: Ad- mit them to Roman citizenship. Had this been done, Rome mig ...

Social, Political, and Economic Structures of Imperial Rome 85 ting volunteers even if they owned no land. Recruits were to be p ...

86 Chapter 5 Capua. To the east, Mithradates of Pontus resumed his aggression, while in the Mediterranean as a whole, widespread ...

Social, Political, and Economic Structures of Imperial Rome 87 and a former Caesarian governor named Lepidus—and together they f ...

88 Chapter 5 ble, Augustus and his successors encouraged provincial cities to adopt Roman institutions and granted Roman citizen ...

Social, Political, and Economic Structures of Imperial Rome 89 Tiberius, succeeded him by inheritance; Tiberius ruled A.D. 14–37 ...

90 Chapter 5 place named Nerva, who ushered in the age of the five good emperors. Neither Nerva nor the three emperors who follo ...

Social, Political, and Economic Structures of Imperial Rome 91 purposes. The dominant current in Roman thought was Stoicism. Cic ...

92 Chapter 5 in the late republic and early empire (perhaps 15 per- cent of the population), and books were produced in large nu ...

Social, Political, and Economic Structures of Imperial Rome 93 In time, however, the economies of scale that had doomed the smal ...

94 Chapter 5 had long been famous. Linens, drugs, perfumes, pre- cious stones, and such delicacies as dried fruit and pick- led ...

Social, Political, and Economic Structures of Imperial Rome 95 dreds of domestic slaves. Because Romans believed, or pretended t ...

96 Chapter 5 Augustus tried to legislate against these abuses by de- manding seven witnesses to a divorce and making it possible ...

Social, Political, and Economic Structures of Imperial Rome 97 better connected than themselves, while a few man- aged, for a ti ...

98 Chapter 5 plants, for the Romans, though thoroughly urbanized, never lost their taste for growing things. Yet by modern stand ...

Social, Political, and Economic Structures of Imperial Rome 99 The age of Augustus and the early emperors has been called the pe ...