Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Patricians vs Plebeians
6
Fact #1 about the Patricians and Plebeians
Julius Caesar was a patrician.
He was sometimes considered a champion of the common people.
Fact #2 about the patricians and plebeians
Patricians vs Plebeians
There was a third social class is the Roman society that were slaves. About one third of people who were living there were slaves.
By: Angelina Zeidan
Conflict of orders
Marriage
Positions in the Senate
How they are different
Plebeians and Patricians were allowed to get married.
The Plebeians and the Patricians were involved in the Conflict of Orders which was a struggle between the classes. The plebeians thought it was unfair that the Patricians had more freedom and rights. The plebeians fought for their political rights in this debate.
Before the Conflict of Orders things were different in the Senate. After the Plebeians revolted and gained their rights everyone was allowed to be chosen to be in the Senate and had the same power and say in the government.
Patricians
- They are members of the upper class
- Smaller of the two classes
- Members of the Senate
- You were born into this social class
More about the Plebeians
Plebeians
- They are common farmers
- Artisans
- Merchants
- They are the majority of the population
- LATER on in Ancient Rome the Plebeians will get to be chosen in the Senate.
More about the Plebeians
More about the Patricians
- Eventually the Plebeians are going to be able to elect their own government official called ¨tribunes¨ and they fight for the Plebeians rights
- They will eventually have the power to veto laws that the Roman Senate makes
- They were the generals over the army
More about the Patricians
- Wealthy land owners
- They held most of the power
- Made the laws
- They are the ones who owned the land
Fact #4 about patricians and Plebeians
Fact #3 about the patricians and plebeians
How they are the same
Many new laws were passed by the Plebeian Council because the procedures were simpler than the Senate.
One of Rome´s famous senators, Cicero, was a Plebeian. He was the first of his family to be elected as senate and he was called a ¨New Man.¨