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Tribes (Latin: tribus) were groupings of citizens in ancient Rome, originally based on location. Voters were eventually organized by tribes, with each Roman tribe having an equal vote in the Tribal Assembly .
A Roman denarius of 63 BC: a voter casting a ballot. A tribus, or tribe, was a division of the Roman people for military, censorial, and voting purposes. When constituted in the comitia tributa, the tribes were the voting units of a legislative assembly of the Roman Republic.
The specific identities or names of the tribes or groups of peoples that practiced these pre-Roman archeological cultures are mostly unknown. The posited existence of these archeological cultures is based on archeological assemblages of artifacts that share common traits and are found within a certain region and originate within a certain ...
Sometimes, a town could be assigned to an existing tribe on the basis that it was the same radial direction from Rome as the existing tribe. [59] Other times, tribes expanded contiguously but with little attention paid to radial direction, such as along the Tyrrhenian coast. [60]
The Germanic tribes had undergone massive technological, social, and economic changes after four centuries of contact with the Roman Empire.From the first to fourth centuries, their populations, economic production, and tribal confederations grew, and their ability to conduct warfare increased to the point of challenging Rome.
The Roman people was the body of Roman citizens (Latin: Rōmānī; Ancient Greek: Ῥωμαῖοι Rhōmaîoi) [a] during the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire. This concept underwent considerable changes throughout the long history of the Roman civilisation, as its borders expanded and contracted.
The population closer to Rome transplanted itself to the new city and united with the preexisting citizenry, beginning a new heritage that descended from the Sabines but was also Latinized. The second population remained a mountain tribal state, coming finally to war against Rome for its independence along with all the other Italic tribes.
Tribes conquered by the Roman Republic (15 P) Pages in category "Tribes conquered by Rome" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total.