lOMoARcPSD 20003089 Final Exam Study Guide CLA2010 Final Exam Study Guide CLA2010 Roman Peoples Florida State University Roman Peoples Florida State University Studocu is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university Studocu is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university Downloaded by Jackson Hughes jacksonhughes2403 gmail com lOMoARcPSD 20003089 F see comment to the right Final Exam STUDY GUIDE CLA2010co Test Expectations able to identify and or explain the relevance of the following terms for our class These include sites vocabulary people and more abstract ideas All of these are pulled from our textbook PowerPoint slides lecture notes and assigned readings You don t need to be able to exhaustively discuss these terms just be able to relate them to context and cultural settings As for images go through the PowerPoint slides and the readings to make sure that if there s a picture map or a graph associated with one of these terms you can identify it remember to re read the articles assigned for class Lastly familiarize with the timeline of Rome Terms The concept of time according to the Romans see Shelton Kairos Greek concept of living in the moment the sun s position measured the time of day only really sunrise midday and used shadows to estimate other times like midmorning or midafternoon sunset Sundials 263 BC sundial from Sicily brought to Rome and put in the Forum divided sunrise and sunset into 12 equal segments 1st hour hour after because time was not exact people would arrive at appointments and have to wait awhile for the other party could be big or small obelisk near the Ara Pacis functioned as a sundial and a monument Claimed that it would shine into the Ara Pacis at some point in the day but sunrise lol no sundial in the Piazza Montecitorio comedy play people used to be governed by bodily functions like hunger to tell them what time it was but now we have to do what the sundial says so I can t eat unless the sundial says it s food time The value of one s time people worked from sunrise to sunset with a siesta in between Downloaded by Jackson Hughes jacksonhughes2403 gmail com lOMoARcPSD 20003089 went to the gymnasia at 8th hour and dinner at 9th The Roman economy general concepts slideshow economics wasn t a Roman discipline economics was confined to the management of the household villa estate economics Xeniphonn Athenian who wrote Oeconomicus which is a Socratic dialogue principally about household management and agriculture Columella Roman author who wrote about agriculture modern economics comes from Adam Smith s A Wealth of Nations Finley v Rostovtzeff primitive economy focused keeping things going by necessity v modernism saw the Romans as advanced and economically planned Economic Activities Shelton the wealthy looked down on people who had to work for a living people with public positions magistracies priesthood lawyers jury and Senators did nothing but public service BECAUSE THEY WERE RICH Cicero looked down on many jobs jobs that make people hate you like tax collector manual labor jobs retail workers because they are liars craftsmen any job that caters to sensual pleasures like fish seller butcher cook raising livestock successfully was the most profitable aspect of property poultry raiser and fisherman small scale trade Cicero approved of these jobs medicine architecture teaching liberal arts large scale trade if it s done respectfully Cato s views on agriculture ownership then raising livestock with some success then raising livestock with little success then raising crops Cato wasn t into money lending Garum fish sauce Olive oil Grain wine Emperor Diocletian set price ceilings on wages and price ceilings on prices Rome was a pastoral economy and some of the most important items were Downloaded by Jackson Hughes jacksonhughes2403 gmail com lOMoARcPSD 20003089 Tradesmen and craftsmen Shelton 123 wealthy looked down on the working class but purchased their goods and services clothes cleaners clothes dryer goldsmiths wool weavers lace and underwear sellers cobblers cleaners belt makers every kind of maker honestly Shipwrecks in the Mediterraneancks shows what types of items the Romans were shipping informs movement of cargo and the existence of traders and markets outside of the city large shipwreck found in port of Yeni Kapi in Istanbul shows the increase in pace of Roman economy well preserved pottery found in the wreckage Monte Testaccio Rome trash mound in the city of Rome consisting of amphorae and oil wine containers called amphorae 220000 sq ft 760 000 cu yd 115fthigh 53 million amphorae and oil wine Banking moneylending bonds and investments moneylending Shelton 137 had to borrow with interest from private individuals 2 or more money lenders would pool money together to create a money lending company couldn t defraud each other Currency Like ancient Instagram coins functioned as iconography and metaphors for a concept coins were the means of trade weight of the coin mattered huge circulation of coins in the empire war bonds 2nd Punic War ravaged Italy Senate couldn t pay back war bonds They gave the bondholders land instead and when they had money they would swap the land for the money if the creditors wanted the money Cato s finances Owned many slaves Had agriculture Invested in real estate Downloaded by Jackson Hughes jacksonhughes2403 gmail com lOMoARcPSD 20003089 Participated in money lending although he looked down on it Senators and their economic agenda senators not supposed to have economic interests they would invest in things and make money suitable for the wealthy Sometimes had to appeal to businessmen for loans and contracts to create needed tons of money from owning agriculture senatorial class used money to finance various campaigns and build and maintain Would own land but wouldn t work it property investment served a dual purpose It provided income to finance urban activities while also providing a retreat from these urban activities supplies clients Pliny Went to his villas often to inspect the grounds and enjoy some relaxation The senatorial class liked property investment Ir provided income to finance urban activities It provided as retreat as described in Pliny s letter on pg 148 Shelton Freedmen Slaves The grain dole if wealthy they lived like Gatsby opportunities were there for people to gain wealth There was kinda a spectrum of slavery in ancient Rome Could be a slave doing back breaking labor like in a