- Unit 3. Rome, the Global Empire
- Getting Started
  - What Are We Learning?
  - Observe and Think
  - Map Your Mind
- Rome, the Global Empire
  - The History of Ancient Rome
    - A Little City Become Empire
    - The Legendary Origins
    - The Monarchy (753-509 BC)
    - The Republic (509-27 BC)
      - The Fight for Political Rights
      - Major Conquests during the Republic
      - The Crisis of the Republic
    - The Roman Empire (27-476 AD)
      - The Crisis of the Third Century
      - The Recovery of the 4th Century
      - The Fall of the Roman Empire
  - The Roman Society
    - Women in Rome
    - Slaves
  - The Roman Economy
  - The Roman Law
  - The Roman Army
- Self-Evaluation Quiz
- Complementary Activities
  - The Greek and Latin Roots of English
  - One Myth, One Song
  - Games, Comics and Stuff
- References

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# Women in Rome

It is said that women in Rome enjoyed much more freedom than in Greece, but to what extent is this true? Let's watch this video and make conclusions after doing the cloze activity below.

Now it's your turn

1. Attia considers Roman women dynamic and JXUwMDI4JXUwMDFmJXUwMDE4JXUwMDEyJXUwMDE3JXUwMDE0JXUwMDEzJXUwMDE5 .

2. Women appear very rarely in History books because History books were written by JXUwMDM1JXUwMDA4JXUwMDBi .

3. Bruno Heller thinks that the reason why women were powerful was partly because men were always JXUwMDM5JXUwMDE2JXUwMDE2JXUwMDE4 .

4. According to Servilia, women of her social class had a great influence in JXUwMDI4JXUwMDFmJXUwMDAzJXUwMDA1JXUwMDFkJXUwMDFkJXUwMDBhJXUwMDEw .

5. This influence was because of their capacity of JXUwMDM1JXUwMDBjJXUwMDBmJXUwMDAxJXUwMDFhJXUwMDAzJXUwMDEzJXUwMDE3JXUwMDFiJXUw MDA3JXUwMDA5 in the back-room politics.

6. The video is about the role of women in the late JXUwMDBhJXUwMDM3JXUwMDE1JXUwMDA1JXUwMDE3JXUwMDBlJXUwMDA1JXUwMDBh .

7. On the other hand, the soldier's wife lives in a nasty JXUwMDMxJXUwMDA3JXUwMDFkJXUwMDA2JXUwMDE5JXUwMDBk with no JXUwMDJiJXUwMDFmJXUwMDBkJXUwMDE3JXUwMDEzJXUwMDE2 .

8. The soldier thinks that women have to be JXUwMDJiJXUwMDA2JXUwMDE3JXUwMDExJXUwMDE2JXUwMDE3JXUwMDA0JXUwMDFmJXUwMDA4JXUw MDBmJXUwMDFh to men.

9. His wife recognizes that in public women are subserviant, but at home they have JXUwMDI4JXUwMDFmJXUwMDE4JXUwMDEyJXUwMDE3 .

10. Attia thinks that behind a great man there is a great JXUwMDJmJXUwMDE4JXUwMDAyJXUwMDBjJXUwMDBm .

11. She says that she would have been an JXUwMDNkJXUwMDA4JXUwMDFkJXUwMDE1JXUwMDE3JXUwMDFkJXUwMDFk if she had been born a man.

You should know... Cleopatra

Certainly, Cleopatra was not a Roman, but the period of the end of the Republic can't be understood without this extremely beautiful smart woman. Let's listen to what our dear History Teachers sing about her.

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