Rome treated conquered people in Italy as full Roman citizens with the right to vote. In territories furhter from Rome, conquered people were given the status as "half-citizen". They enjoyed all the rights of a Roman citizen except the privilage to vote.
All Roman citizens had equal rights. Slaves, being someone else's property, had no rights.
Rome controlled England and Scotland except for the Scottish Highlands. The Emperor Hadrian pulled the Roman Army out of Scotland.
Rome control over the Mediterranean meant that she could keep piracy in check.
The upper class in ancient Rome did not have any special rights. All Roman citizens had the same rights and everybody was equal under the Roman law. The upper class had more political power due to its wealth and status.
roman province was controlled by a roman magistrate.
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Originally, a Roman citizen was a male who was freeborn and born in Rome or was the son of a Roman family which had settled elsewhere in the empire. In 90 BC Roman citizenship was extended to Rome's Italic allies in central and southern Italy. A Roman citizen enjoyed the rights and protections of Roman law, could vote and run for office, sue, stand trial, and was exempt from torture and crucifixion. Roman women had limited Roman citizenship in that they enjoyed the rights and protections of Roman law, but did not have the right to vote or run for public office. Freedmen who lived in the city of Rome were given Roman citizenship by virtue of permanent residence in Rome.
Rome treated conquered people in Italy as full Roman citizens with the right to vote. In territories furhter from Rome, conquered people were given the status as "half-citizen". They enjoyed all the rights of a Roman citizen except the privilage to vote.
All Roman citizens had equal rights. Slaves, being someone else's property, had no rights.
All Roman citizens had equal rights. Slaves, being someone else's property, had no rights.
In the Roman Republic, the citizens of Rome elected the Roman Consuls and thus controlled their own government. In the early Roman Empire, the forms of the Republic were often retained but not the reality of citizen control.
The Etruscans
The upper class in ancient Rome did not have any special rights. All Roman citizens had the same rights and everybody was equal under the Roman law. The upper class had more political power due to its wealth and status.
Rome controlled England and Scotland except for the Scottish Highlands. The Emperor Hadrian pulled the Roman Army out of Scotland.
Rome control over the Mediterranean meant that she could keep piracy in check.
By influence from Rome and the fact that Germans later controlled most of the Western Roman Empire which even more accentuated this.