HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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Why did the plebeians revolt?
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to gain more political rights
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to gain the freedom to leave Rome
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to protest against war with neighboring tribes
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to demand that patricians do their work
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Describe two ways in which plebeians gained more political power after the revolts of 494 BC. The Tribunes of the Plebs spoke for the plebeians and could veto actions of the Senate. The Council of Plebs made laws for all plebeians.
Detailed explanation-2: -plebeians waged a campaign (Conflict of the Orders) to have their civil disabilities abolished. They organized themselves into a separate corporation and withdrew from the state on perhaps as many as five or more critical occasions to compel patrician concessions; such a withdrawal was termed a secessio.
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