HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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attacking the patricians
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demanding laws be written down
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electing leaders that favored plebeians over patricians
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -until 494 B.C.E., when a strike orchestrated by the plebeians resulted in the establishment of the Concilium Plebis, or the Councilof the Plebs. This gave the plebeians a voice in the government. As a result, new legislative, or law-making, bodies of the Roman Republic were formed.
Detailed explanation-2: -356 BC saw the appointment of the first plebeian dictator, and in 339 BC the plebeians facilitated the passage of a law (the lex Publilia), which required the election of at least one plebeian censor for each five-year term.
Detailed explanation-3: -Plebeians made up the majority of Roman society and they were generally poor. While some plebeians were more wealthy than others, they still did not have any power in government because they were not members of the patrician class. Patricians were the upper class of Roman society who controlled the government.
Detailed explanation-4: -Rome’s working class, the plebeians had little individual power. Grouped together, however, they became a Roman mob and had to be handled carefully. By the first century AD, plebeians comprised a formal class, which held its own meetings, elected its own officials and kept its own records.