CLST 103 Chapter 6 Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update 2024 (Rated 100%)
Monte Testaccio - Answers - Artificial hill in Rome comprised of the remains of olive oil amphorae
- approx 53 million amphorae, each with 73 kg of oil
Main commodities in Rome - Answers - wine (1.8 million hectolitres...
Monte Testaccio - Answers - Artificial hill in Rome comprised of the remains of olive oil amphorae
- approx 53 million amphorae, each with 73 kg of oil
Main commodities in Rome - Answers - wine (1.8 million hectolitres per year)
- Grain (200 000 tonnes imported/year
- olive oil
Roman Economy - Answers - lacked economists
- evidence of large scale trade
- widespread use of money
Land - Answers - lack of countryside in Rome - most descriptions are a romantic picturesqueness with
more sentimental value than anything
- essential in establishing place in the census
farmers - Answers - free farmers worked the land with families
- some hired themselves out
- slaves were also used for labour
mercennarii - Answers free men who sold their skills
peasant economy - Answers - produced what they consumed
- sometimes sold to the market
- typically more stable because of their self reliance
- problems would arise when the next generations became dependent on a small farm
- every 2 generations demanded new land
ager publicus - Answers state owned land which was used sometimes to settle Roman colonies or to
distribute to Roman citizens who applied for it
Great Landowners - Answers - Rome's Patricians (Aristocrats)
- land was the most secure and respectable investment as it was a source of income
- typically accumulated a large number of farms and estates, usually scattered all over Italy
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