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At what point in history? Somebody wants you to answer: Patricians and Plebeians. Originally, Patricians were those families who were Roman from the foundation of the city; plebeians were later immigrants. In time, this became a class divisionl; but the Plebeians, many of whom had grown rich, gradually took on the title of full Roman citizens and the class structure became entirely mixed. There were rich people, poor people and slaves in the late republic and Empire; but most of the rich were by now of plebeian ancestry.

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The aristocracy were the patricians. The equites formed a lower tier of the aristocracy. The plebeians were the lower class.

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The Plebs, being the common folk.

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What did the roman poet mean when he said that only two things interested the Roman masses- bread and circuses?

In the Second Punic War, Fabius was the dictator of Rome. He chose to stay inside the walls of Rome to wait out Hannibal's attack, and this continued for ten years. Meanwhile, the farmland was destroyed and the farmers could not make any use out of the lands. The farmers then sold the land to the wealthy people (patricians) for very little money. These rich people used conquered slaves to work these newly bought lands. These massive plantations were called as the latifundia. This put the farmers and the poor people out of work. The slaves were the only people who were productive in the Roman society. To keep the poor, jobless people from rebelling, the government issued the dole and the bread and circuses. The dole was the feeding of the poor. The bread and circuses was entertainment for the poor people (plebians). The poor people were only interested in entertainment, so naturally, they were only interested in the bread and circuses.

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