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What is the comitium? - correct answer ✔1. Places established to gather
assemblies
2. Popular consultations
Assemblies - correct answer ✔- Composed of male roman citizens
- Voted yes or no on laws proposed by consuls, praetors, tribunes
Comitia Centuriata - correct answer ✔- Assembly of the people
- People divided in 193 centuriae
- Seniores have more dignity than iuvenes
Where did comitia centuriata meet? - correct answer ✔- Outside of the
pomerium
- In the campus martius
Subdivision of citizen by centuriae - correct answer ✔- 5 classes
- Capite censi (no income)
Task of comitia centuriata - correct answer ✔- Elect most important
magistrates (censorship, consulship, praetorship)
- Vote laws of government
- Court of justice
- Consult for war
, Tribe - correct answer ✔- total 35
- 4 tribes in Rome
- 31 Rural tribes
- Geographic division
- Passed on generations
Task of comitia tributa - correct answer ✔- elected curule aediles and
quaestors
- approve laws of roman people
- met in the forum
Comitia Tributa - correct answer ✔- People divided by tribes
- Patricians and plebs
Concilium plebis - correct answer ✔- assembly after secession in 494 BCE
- Voted by clans/kinship
- 472 BCE start vote by tribe
- convened and presided by plebian magistrate
- Aventine Hill
plebiscita - correct answer ✔- decision of the concilium plebis
- Later binding to entire population
Functions of concilium plebis - correct answer ✔- elected annually
- 10 tribunes of plebs represent interest of plebs
- plebian aediles