Yes, progressively.
The 12 Tables bound the formerly alien populations to the fortunes of Rome & drew them into the Roman political & cultural system.
The 12 Tables bound the formerly alien populations to the fortunes of Rome & drew them into the Roman political & cultural system.
The plebeians gained their political rights by civil unrest and work stoppage. The patricians soon realized that they needed the plebeians not only for their work, but for their bodies in the army. So they granted them a couple of tribunes to look after their interests.
The plebeians gained their political rights by civil unrest and work stoppage. The patricians soon realized that they needed the plebeians not only for their work, but for their bodies in the army. So they granted them a couple of tribunes to look after their interests.
The plebeians gained their political rights by civil unrest and work stoppage. The patricians soon realized that they needed the plebeians not only for their work, but for their bodies in the army. So they granted them a couple of tribunes to look after their interests.
The plebeians gained their political rights by civil unrest and work stoppage. The patricians soon realized that they needed the plebeians not only for their work, but for their bodies in the army. So they granted them a couple of tribunes to look after their interests.
The plebeians gained their political rights by civil unrest and work stoppage. The patricians soon realized that they needed the plebeians not only for their work, but for their bodies in the army. So they granted them a couple of tribunes to look after their interests.
They threatened to leave Rome and build a new city.
The plebians gained power by going on strike.
The gracchus brothers helped make reforms and made them into realities
Yes, they did gain a larger role in politics. In fact, after their strikes, protests, and actually leaving the city for their own enclave on the Adventine hill, they got what they wanted. By the time of the mid to late republic one consul had to be a plebeian.
They made the first steps in withdrawing from thee city to make their point, and got a share in the magistracies, which led to their progressive increases in numbers in the Senate. The civil wars eliminated a such large proportion of the Patricians that during the Principate they became irrelevant - an honorific only.