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Cursus publicus - Public roads was the system of state run courier and transportation services of the Roman Empire first established by Emperor Augustus for the facilitation of state message exchange, transport of state officials and the collection of taxes and fund transfer. The system was dismantled by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the mid 6th century AD with the exception of the roads that led to the Persian borders.
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Who or what was the Cursus Honourum?
Cursus Honourum means the course of offices. It was the sequential order of political offices in the Roman Republic. This law set minimum ages for offices and limited the time a person could hold office.
Tiberius gracchus was killed after proposing a law to?
He was killed after proposing reorganize control of the "ager publicus" i.e. public land - which was defined as land conquered in previous wars that was controlled by the state. The existing agrarian law supposedly limited citizens to possess no more than 500 jugera (approximately 125 hectares) of the ager publicus and any land that they occupied above this limit was supposed to be confiscated by the state, but rich landowners pretty much ignored the law and used all sorts of tricks to accumulate much of the land, impoverishing much of the population of Free Roman citizens.
What you two main career paths put before noble boys in rome?
The two main career path in public service for the noble young men were politics and public office or a service in the cavalry or as an officer in the army. The Roman executive officers of state were also politicians because they were elected annually (apart from the censors who were elected every 18 months). The Romans had a set career path along the ladder of public office which was called cursus honorum. This was a mixture of administrative posts in the military and political posts. it set out a progression from lower to higher posts, a minimum ages for his each post and, later, minimum intervals between holding successive offices, and restrictions of holding the same office again. It started a 10-year service in the cavalry or as an administrative office in the staff of military commanders. Well connected men sometimes served for less then 10 years. At the age of 30 you were allowed to stand for being elected as a quaestor. The minimum age for being an aedile was 39. To become a praetor you had to be 39, to become a consul you had to be 40 (42 for a commoner) and censor you had to have held the consulship first. It has to be noted that the offices of state were open to the commoners as well. Many nobles were keen on a career in politics and public office. A number of older noblemen also sat in the (unelected) senate.
