WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Both men and women were citizens in the Roman Republic, but only men could vote. Tradition dictated that patricians and plebeians should be strictly separated; marriage between the two classes was even prohibited.

Detailed explanation-2: -Any children they had while freed would, however, be considered full Roman citizens with the same rights. Male citizens of Rome belonged to two distinct social classes: plebeian and patrician.

Detailed explanation-3: -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). Otherwise, citizenship could be granted by the people, later by generals and emperors.

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: -All patrician and plebeian men were citizens and had the right to vote. All citizens had to pay taxes and join the army, but only patricians could be in government. The government of the Roman Republic was very complicated. It had a constitution and detailed laws, and it had lots of leaders and councils.