WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT ROME

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What were the two social classes of Rome?
A
Athens and Sparta
B
Patricians and Plebeians
C
Good and Bad
D
First class and second class
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The two classes of the Roman society were the Patricians, the elite people and the Plebeians, the commoners.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The Conflict of the Orders was a political struggle that took place during the early Roman Republic between the patrician and the plebeian social classes.

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