Social Sciences and History / Unit 3 SSH 0225 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Roman Society, Law, and Citizenship
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The idea
Rome had aqueducts, concrete and the Colosseum, yet most citizens lived packed in flammable tenements over open sewers, and the predatory rich forced small farmers off the land.
In practice
Provincials under their own law until Caracalla granted citizenship to all free people in two twelve CE.
Where people slip
The anchor's reason for Caracalla's grant is taxes. Overlapping legal systems explain the trial of Jesus.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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