Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Roman Society

Here's a website about ancient Rome:http://www.historyforkids.org/
I looked through the webpage of Ancient Roman People:
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/people/index.htm


The ancient Roman Empire was very big. There were a lot of different people with different cultures lived in Rome, and Roman families had many different forms, too. Furthermore, the laws between men and women in Rome are similar than Greek and Islamic laws. The different cultures traveled around Rome interflowing with each other. It seemed good, it had multiple cultures. However, the variety a cultures sometimes caused some problems, and even more violent. There were many people forced to be slaves everywhere in Roman Empire. Nonetheless, not all the slaveries were really bad treated. It was depended on the time and the place. In Italy and Sicily, big farms were worked by slave field-hands, who were really bad treated of rich people. Moreover, some slaves were criminals. They worked in the mines or other hard labors as their punishment. On the other hand, most slaves were merely house servants. A lot of slaves also worked for the Roman government, or for private businesses, running a shop, working in small factories. They were also nice treated.

In Roman Empire, boys went to school mostly in city, but girl weren't allowed to study there. Nevertheless, in the countryside, people merely knew hoe to read and write. Yet many of them traveled to other places for education.

Most marriages of rich people were arranged by their parents, they couldn't marry the poor people except their parents agreed.

1 comment:

Savant English School said...

Nice work. I am glad you are interested so much in Roman society.