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Social Inequalities And Conflicts Between The Orders During The Republic

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After the Gallic sack, the Romans had some time for the recovery and expansion, but it also brought some sort of social inequalities and conflicts between the Roman aristocrats and the plebian, which were the Roman commoners. “This period is represented as one of political tension and strife, leading on an attempted coup d’état in 384 and culminating in a period of anarchy in the years around 370.” The major points of contention between the Orders during the Republic were the issues related to “land, debt, and the political rights of the plebeians,” although the main reasons and causes of this conflict were not clearly documented and are still unclear. According to Livy, the main problem was about debt, and he argued that the debt problem
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