WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT ROME

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The ____ were the ordinary citizens in ancient Rome.
A
Etruscans
B
Greeks
C
plebeians
D
Patricians
Explanation: 

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: -civitas, plural Civitates, citizenship in ancient Rome. Roman citizenship was acquired by birth if both parents were Roman citizens (cives), although one of them, usually the mother, might be a peregrinus (“alien”) with connubium (the right to contract a Roman marriage).

Detailed explanation-3: -The plebeians were members belonging to the lower strata of society. It mainly consisted of farmers and common men. These worked on the fields owned by the Patricians.

Detailed explanation-4: -Plebeians were the lower class, often farmers, in Rome who mostly worked the land owned by the Patricians.

Detailed explanation-5: -Patricians would be the upper class, people such as wealthy land owners would be in the patricians group. Plebeians would be the lower class which would be normal people in Rome. The separations meant that they would be completely separated. Plebeians could only marry people form their social class and so forth.

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