What were the primary economic concerns of each class of the Late Romans and how were they addressed?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Students should demonstrate an understanding of the profound insecurity that affected Romans of all classes, security that the government was less and less prepared to provide. As a result, the gap between rich and poor became more pronounced as gold became more and more concentrated in the hands of the wealthy, the Decurions were pressured to squeeze as much as possible out of the lower classes, who in turn transferred their properties to aristocrats to become coloni, or tenant farmers, thus exchanging their freedom for security. Perhaps most ironically, slaves received a boost in their social standing because their owners would rather have them work as coloni then have to be responsible for their basic needs.
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A) free soil. B) principle over expediency. C) the Freeport Doctrine. D) popular sovereignty.
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a. Confucius b. Mencius c. King Hui of Liang d. Lao Tzu
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.