dose anyone no what a roman is? is it a religion a heritage or just people that live in rome can anyone tellme

Answer 1

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Answer 2

It is quite clear, if Rome has been treated as a separate country, the people who are living there are called 'Romans', like Americans, Russians and Europeons. Their religion may be christian or any other. If you go to live in Rome you would also be known as Roman. Nothing of the sort of religion or a heritage being a Roman.

Answer 3

I am Roman by heritage, my family came from Rome, but Im not Roman by religion.

Answer 4

the elite was a race .
the concept was a culture
the lot of them were an Empire
and they had many religions
in fact almost all religions known at that time were represented.
and their descendants are still around in positions of great power
the Salinas family in Mexico can be traced back to Aragon in Spain(Spanish royalty)and directly to Salinus in Rome
and they have been behind the Mexican control for 500 years.
and they are not the only ones
the Vatican is also a continuance of the Roman power,
}and there are many more

Answer 5

"A" Roman could be either a modern person from Rome, Italy, or a reference to a citizen of the ancient Roman Empire. "Roman" also refers to the religion that believed in a pantheon of gods and goddesses. See "Roman mythology."

Answer 6

Two thosand years ago, Caesar gave a coin, or a badge to citizens to carry outside Italy. Paul had one. He was a devout Hebrew, with duel citizenship. He got in a big argument with the Hebrews, and used the badge as a 'get out of Jail free card'. His trial got a change of venue, because he was also considered Roman.

Answer 7

A roman lives is Rome. If you are refering to Bible times it
was refering to people who lived in Rome.

Answer 8

It's just someone who lived in Rome. There are people who are "Roman Catholic," but this is not the same as just a "Roman."

Answer 9

Roman citizenship

Citizenship in the time of Rome was a priviledged status afforded to certain individuals with respect to laws, property, and governance.

It is very difficult to offer meaningful generalities across the entire Roman period, as the nature and availability of citizenship was affected by legislation, for example, the Lex Iulia. In the Roman Republic and later in the Roman Empire, people resident within the Roman state could very roughly divided into several classes:

Slaves were considered property and had only certain very limited rights as granted by statute. They could essentially be sold, tortured, maimed, raped and killed at the whim of their owners. It was the exceptional feature of ancient Rome that almost all slaves freed by Roman owners (freedman) automatically received Roman citizenship.
The natives who lived in territories conquered by Rome, citizens of Roman client states and Roman allies could be given a limited form of Roman citizenship such as the Latin Right. This amounted essentially to a second-class citizenship within the Roman state. The Latin Right is the most widely known but there were many other of such Rights.
A Roman citizen enjoyed the full range of benefits that flowed from his status. A citizen could, under certain exceptional circumstances, be deprived of his citizenship.
Women were a class apart whose status in Roman society varied tremendously over time. While Roman citizen women would come to enjoy many of the rights accorded to male citizens, Roman women could not vote or stand for office, and were, at least in theory, subject to the almost complete power of their paterfamilias.

Various methods to obtain Roman citizenship
The following are methods whereby people were granted citizenship in the Roman period:

Roman citizenship was granted automatically to every child born in a legal marriage of a Roman citizen.
People who were from the Latin states were gradually granted citizenship.
The children of freed slaves became citizens.
A Roman legionary could not legally marry, therefore all his children were denied citizenship, unless and until the legionary married their mother after his release from service.
Some individuals received citizenship because of their outstanding service to the Roman republic (later, the empire).
One could also buy citizenship, but at a very high price.
Auxilia were rewarded with Roman citizenship after their term of service. Their children also became citizens and could join the Roman legions.
Rome gradually granted citizenship to whole provinces; the third-century Constitutio Antoniniana granted it to all free male inhabitants of the Empire.

Rights given
While citizen rights varied over time, a partial list of them includes:

The right to vote in the Republic.
The right to make legal contracts.
The right to have a lawful marriage.
The right to stand for public office.
The right to sue (and be sued) in the courts.
The right to appeal from the decisions of magistrates.
The right to have a trial (to appear before a proper court and to defend oneself).
Citizens could not be subjected to torture.
A Roman citizen couldn't be sentenced to death unless he was found guilty of treason. If accused of treason, a Roman citizen had the right to be tried in Rome. Even if sentenced to death, no Roman citizen could be sentenced to die at the cross. (Despite being found guilty of the same crime, St. Paul and St. Peter faced different fates. St. Paul was beheaded, while St. Peter, not being a Roman citizen, was crucified.)

Roman citizenship was required in order to join the Roman legions, but this was sometimes ignored.

Abrogation of citizenship rights
Further information: In Verrem
All these rights were (as everywhere down the ages, and even today) sometimes ignored. For example, the definition of the crime "treason" varied largely from time to time.

The governorship of Gaius Verres is perhaps the most blatant example how all these rights could simply be ignored by the State. Apparently, Verres (then governor of Sicilia) being informed that a local Roman citizen would travel to Rome in order to complain about the various abuses (high taxes, and systematic plunder of the entire province) ordered the arrest of the citizen. As the citizen demanded a trial (which he could later appeal and transfer to Rome), Verres denied it under the accusation of treason. Verres later ordered him flogged (torture), then crucified (death). The citizen repeated constantly: "I am a Roman citizen" but no one intervened. When (much later) Verres was prosecuted by Cicero, he simply fled Italy and his friends in the Senate never bothered themselves into ordering his arrest.

Citizenship as a tool of Romanization
The granting of citizenship to allies and the conquered was a vital step in the process of Romanization. This step was one of the most effective political tools and (at that point in history) original political ideas (perhaps one of the most important reasons for the success of Rome).

As a precursor to this, Alexander the Great had tried to "mingle" his Macedonians and the Persians, Egyptians, Syrians, etc in order to assimilate the people of the conquered Persian Empire, but after his death this policy was largely ignored by his successors. The idea was to assimilate, to turn a defeated and potentially rebellious enemy (or his sons) into a Roman citizen. Instead having to wait for the unavoidable revolt of a conquered people (a tribe or a city-state) like Sparta and the conquered Helots, Rome made the "known" (conquered) world Roman.

The Social War (in which the Italian allies revolted against Rome) ended gradually as Rome granted citizenship to all Italian freemen (with the exception of Gallia Cisalpina). After 212 AD, all freemen in the Empire were granted citizenship by an imperial edict (the Constitutio Antoniniana) of Emperor Caracalla.