HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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A plebeian was rich and a patrician was poor.
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A plebeian was a slave and a patrician was rich.
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A patrician was rich and a plebeian was poor
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There weren’t any differences between the two.
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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: -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-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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Patricians controlled the most valuable land. They also held the important military and religious offices. Free non-patricians called plebeians were mostly peasants, laborers, craftspeople, and shopkeepers. The word plebeian comes from plebs, which means ‘’the common people”.
Detailed explanation-5: -As civil rights for plebeians increased during the middle and late Roman Republic, many plebeian families had attained wealth and power while some traditionally patrician families had fallen into poverty and obscurity.