CLA231H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Senatus Consultum, Cursus Honorum, Municipium
Document Summary
Eventual result: standard cursus honorum - or hierarchy of senatorial offices within which contemporaries competed against one another to move up from quastor to prator to consul and even censor. Italy experienced changes that disrupted long established political and social practices. Wartime devastation and from the harsh peace that rome forced on disloyal allies. The movements of people within the peninsula made possible by the greater integration of italian communities. Consequences of vast influx of wealthy derived from rome"s wars outside of italy. Changing relations between rome, its municipia, and allies. Expansion of full roman citizenship and a hardening of the distinctions between. Romans and non-romans accompanied grater roman surveillance over local affairs in italy. Among romans, chief division had been ebtween residents of municipia with the right to vote in roman elections, and residents of communities without this right.
