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What were political gruops in rome?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Ihn the Early and Mid Republic there was the plebeian movement which was spearheaded by the poor plebeians and which fought for the grievances of the poor. The rich plebeians who led this movement used the movement to successfully obtain power-sharing with the patrician aristocracy which originally monopolised political power. The plebeians were the commoners, both rich and poor. In the late Roman Republic there were two opposing political factions, the optimates who were conservative and fought for the interests of the aristocracy, and the populares who championed the cause of the poor. During the rule by emperors there were not any political groups as such because the emperor was an absolute ruler. However, there were temporary factions who supported different powerful men or military commanders. Some of them conspired against emperors.

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