Roman Citizenship Dbq

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Do you know that people are citizens of the state empire? is not only being a citizen of meeting the certain the responsibility. You just got to be a good citizen and they elected pairs to be in group they did it for all the distract classes. Around 500 BCE, Athens and Rome were found in Mediterranean region. Rome and Athens both had different systems of citizenship, but one was better than the other. Citizenship Rome and Athens which is better system? Rome had a better system of citizenship because they had citizenship for non-Romans, Rome censors and citizenship levels, and Rome order and stability of senate. One reason the Rome system of citizenship was better because Rome had citizenship for non-Romans. The evidence of this is in document A, it says that Rome allowed women, children, and a sons of a freed slave can be a citizen. The evidence helps explain why Rome had the stronger system because Rome let everyone be a citizen to become stronger and it was bigger because they can have more people. …show more content…
Rome elected censors in pairs who put people into different classes. I found this evidence in document D, it said that Rome only had one pair of censors. The censors looked at if you were in the military service. Censors helped Rome put citizens in groups based on money, family rank, marriage and fitness. It would been hard for them to make everyone a citizen in Rome. Athens will have a weaker system even though Athens did not let everyone be a citizen. That is why Athens does not have the stronger system. Rome let only the richest and the oldest families be a

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