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The Patricians And Plebeians In Ancient Rome

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Ancient Rome, after the famine, the plebeians were demanding for their price for the city's grain supply. With the protests going the patricians granted the plebeians five representatives to discuss Caius Martius, who does nothing else but look down on the plebeians. He states that because the plebeians did not fight in war, they don't deserve that power.

Patricians and plebeians in ancient Rome were based on birth, a modern society patricians of the middle class, same wealth as the plebeians but because of their background they are put in a class above the plebeians. They class the plebeians as their less fortunate families when they are the same wealth as the patricians but because their background is the lower class they are put in the

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