WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Plebeians were the lower class, often farmers, in Rome who mostly worked the land owned by the Patricians. Some plebeians owned small plots of land, but this was rare until the second century BC.

Detailed explanation-2: -In ancient Rome, the plebeians (also called plebs) were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words “commoners". Both classes were hereditary.

Detailed explanation-3: -Records of each class were kept, and being wealthy was often not enough to move up through the classes. There were three basic divisions in Roman society: citizens, noncitizens and slaves.

Detailed explanation-4: -Roman citizens were divided up into two distinct classes: the plebeians and the patricians. The patricians were the wealthy upper class people. Everyone else was considered a plebeian.

Detailed explanation-5: -The plebeians were the commoners in Rome and had the highest population in society. They included merchants, farmers, and craft workers. Many lived in apartments above or behind their shops and rented the stories above it.