Leveled Readings / Diocletian (284-305 CE) and Constantine (308-337 CE): Efforts to Stabilize the Economy
Diocletian (284-305 CE) and Constantine (308-337 CE): Efforts to Stabilize the Economy
Edict of Constantine on tenant farmers (4th century CE)
These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.
Original wording
“Tenants also who meditate flight may be bound with chains and reduced to a servile condition…”
Adapted · about grade 4
Farm workers who plan to run away can be chained and treated like slaves.
Adapted · about grade 7
Tenant farmers who plan to run away may be put in chains and reduced to a condition like slavery.
Adapted · about grade 10
Tenants who contemplate flight may be bound in chains and reduced to a servile condition.