THE ROMAN EMPIRE
...lies centurions 2. Senate: Formed by patricians in charge to approve laws 3. Magistrates: Tributes, consuls, censors, pretones, ediles. Social Organization The Roman society was divided in three great classes: 1. Patricians that had political and religious positions 2. Plebeians/craftsmen, farmers, Etc.) 3. Slaves, sold mainly to the patricians The Roman society in addition, it lived in groups of families who rendered culture to a common ancestor, known as gens, they made altars for its deceased and the women when marrying they rendered cultured to the ancestors of the husband. The group of the clients existed, the free men without properties that were put to the service of some Patricians, swearing fidelity to him. Economic Organization Rome became a commercial center in that they practiced agriculture, the fishing, the cattle ranch, the harvesting and the commerce in which also slaves included themselves. The commerce with Greece was very important. They used lingoes of gold to deal, later currency and usury. The Roman economy was affected finally by wars undergone in the Empire. The Imperial Roman life 80 million inhabitants Urban empire Romans founded and they developed it They constructed temples, spas, aqueducts, circuses, basilicas etc. Great mansions - citizen well-off, collective houses - the others Diminution of slavery with the manual labor Poor men flattered and applauded their gentlemen, bread Wealth idleness and diversion Diversion gladiators Moral recruited Germanic the army to defend the borders Empire Religion in Rome The Romans had a polytheist religion, between the Gods to which they rendered cultured they were: Jupiter supreme God Venus Masters They also rendered cultured to its dead ancestors and the natural phenomena To its Gods they venerated those offering animals to them, flowers, gifts; they constructed statues and temples of them. The Roman religion underwent a change with the arrival of the Christianity that well was not received since it proposed justice in the full society of justice Roman Culture The most important inheritance of the Roman culture was Right, that is to say, a set of laws that help us to conserve justice between the men Another inheritance was the Latin that at the moment gave origin to the Romance languages and Castilian or the Spanish spoken in several countries Also they developed to Literature emphasizing the stories offeats single-breasted uniform jackets of polibio, Julio Cesar and Libyan Tito They had philosophy epicureísmo and stoicism and between itsphilosophers they emphasized Cicerón and Seneca. In the architecture and en...