After the Romans overthrew their rulers, the Etruscans, the Romans established a form of government — a republic — that was copied by countries for centuries. In fact, the United States government is partly based on the Roman Republic. (US History)
There were two main classes in Rome, the plebeians, and the patricians, however; the third class was the slaves. The only way to get into a class was to be born into it. You could only move down classes, not up. Sometimes, when a plebeian was barely getting by, he/she would become a slave, and then he/she could live in, house, food, and clothes in return for working for a master.
The Roman Republic was made only up by the patricians, but the plebeians were the army men. This could have gone horribly wrong, but eventually, the
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On the other hand, many cultures copied from the Romans. We copied their architecture, their form of government and their idea of a constitution. The US government is the Democratic Republic, which comes from the Greek democracy and the Roman Republic. When voting came out, only the wealthy landowners in America were allowed to vote, but later all men were allowed to have a vote. It wasn’t until the 1920s the 19th amendment was finally accepted into the Constitution; it declared that women have rights like men. In Roman times, women were treated unfairly, because to the Romans, the women were less than men. Women got a basic education if they got an education, and were subject to the authority of a man.
Today we have laws that say all children need to go to school until at least high school. We have laws that state that children have to be at school for a certain amount of days. We have laws that prevent us from stealing, killing, abusing and many more things. We got the idea of laws from the Romans, we can't escape that we copied many things from the