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en-wikipedia-org-1524		Adoption in ancient Rome - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2388	394	54	Adoption in Ancient Rome was practiced and performed by the upper classes; a large number of adoptions were performed by the Senatorial class.[1] Succession and family legacy were very important; therefore Romans needed ways of passing down their fortune and name when unable to produce a male heir. Additionally, because the legal impacts of women in ancient Rome were so minimal, it is possible that adoptions could have been more informal and therefore less accounted for in history. The Adoptive Emperors[edit] From the study of this history we may also learn how a good government is to be established; for while all the emperors who succeeded to the throne by birth, except Titus, were bad, all were good who succeeded by adoption, as in the case of the five from Nerva to Marcus. "Adoption in the Roman Empire".	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1524.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1524.txt