Plebeians were important to Rome because they constitute the majority of the population who do menial jobs, go to farm and were never allowed to serve in the senate

Today, the term plebeian is synonymous with lower class. In early Rome, the plebeians (also known simply as plebs) may have been that part of the Roman population whose origin was among the conquered Latins (as opposed to the Roman conquerors). Plebeians were contrasted with the patrician nobility. In the period of the early Roman Republic, membership in the Senate may have been denied to the plebeians, and restricted to the patricians. Plebeians were the working class of Ancient Rome. They typically lived in three-or-four story apartment houses called insulae. The insulae