Common Good In Ancient Rome

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The Ancient Rome Republic sort of met the common good because they did pretty well in some of the groups of go

One thing the Romans did well for the common good was the public service in Ancient Rome, which was very good so I gave the public service an A+! One great thing that the Romans had to provide a public service was the public Roman bathhouses. It’s good enough that there is a bathhouse for everyone, but a really cool thing about it was that the water was heated which was really nice for people who didn 't have running water in their own house. Also, no matter if you were a plebeian or patrician, or a woman you could use them. Another great thing the Romans provided for public service was the aqueducts. The aqueducts was a structure …show more content…

The economy in Ancient Rome was a pretty good one which we still kind of use, some of the same methods today, so I give the economy an A. All of the people of Rome had to pay their taxes and the farmers could pay their taxes with some money and some crops. The crops they got from the taxes were used to help feed the legionnaires at no cost. The Ancient Romans used bronze coins for money. The jobs in Ancient Rome were usually farmers, market sellers, traders, government officials, or soldiers. Ancient Rome usually traded goods with Africa, India, and China they sold goods such as silver, gold, wool cloth, linen, wine, and glass. The traders traveled on a road with many different routes to be able to get to different places In Ancient Rome plebeians usually lived in either mud-brick apartments or small apartments in town and the patricians usually lived in town, but owned a lot of land that they either sold to poor farmers or had their slaves farm in that area. As you can see, the economic system in Rome was pretty …show more content…

When the gladiators were fighting the had no choice whether they wanted to or not the gladiators were usually prisoners or prisoners they had captured from other countries also if a gladiator was injured the audience decided what to do with them whether to kill them or let them live but even if they let them live they wouldn 't give them any medical attention no matter how badly they were hurt. Slaves were any other group of people who didn 't have many rights. After a slave was sold their master could treat them as badly as they wanted with few consequences. Which was totally wrong since they 're just another person and today the laws are really different. One last group of people that didn 't have many rights were the women. In Ancient Rome the common woman’s job was to take care of the house and the children and you would have to clean the house with brooms that were made out of twigs and animal hair and you would have to have the house in order before their husband returned. If you were a wealthy woman you basically had the slaves do everything for you. As you can see the protection of rights was not very good in