CIVILIZATION
ROMAN
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Question
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a group of judges in the Roman Empire
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a group of three leaders of the Roman Republic
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a powerful group of nobles who were small in number
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a large but politically limited group of people
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Detailed explanation-1: -The term plebeian referred to all free Roman citizens who were not members of the patrician, senatorial or equestrian classes. Plebeians were average working citizens of Rome – farmers, bakers, builders or craftsmen – who worked hard to support their families and pay their taxes.
Detailed explanation-2: -For example, plebeians could not join the Roman Senate-an advisory body unable to create laws on its own but whose recommendations were taken seriously by the consuls. To become a senator, a Roman had to have held a political office, and plebeians could not.
Detailed explanation-3: -The word “patrician” comes from the Latin “patres”, meaning “fathers”, and these families provided the empire’s political, religious, and military leadership. Most patricians were wealthy landowners from old families, but the class was open to a chosen few who had been deliberately promoted by the emperor.
Detailed explanation-4: -Plebeians. Plebeians were the lower class, often farmers, in Rome who mostly worked the land owned by the Patricians.