HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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Roman citizens who sat in the Senate.
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Roman women who were not citizens of Athens.
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Slaves who had been captured by the Romans
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Roman citizens who were not wealthy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The term plebeian referred to all free Roman citizens who were not members of the patrician, senatorial or equestrian classes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Plebeians were the farmers, craftsmen, laborers, and soldiers of Rome.
Detailed explanation-3: -The poor of Rome were called Plebeians and they had no political rights.
Detailed explanation-4: -Patrician. Patricians were considered the upper-class in early Roman society. They controlled the best land and made up the majority of the Roman senate.
Detailed explanation-5: -Free non-patricians called plebeians were mostly peasants, laborers, craftspeople, and shopkeepers. The word plebeian comes from plebs, which means ‘’the common people”. Plebeians made up about 95 percent of Rome’s population. They could not be priests or government officials.