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The citizens of Rome had a rigid social structure. At the beginnings of the city there were two classes of people, the patricians and the plebeians. The patricians being the "haves" and the plebeians the "have nots". After strikes and civil unrest the plebs won their rights. However as Rome grew, many other people came to live in the city and they were neither patrician nor plebeian, they were the proletariat. Some were poor, some were wealthy or grew wealthy. These wealthier citizens became a type of upper middle-class called the Equestrians, (a name taken from the old military order of equites.). The equestrians were primarily the businessmen and they were a powerful political group. Beneath them were the rest of the population, the average Gaius and Marcus. Next came the freedmen, former slaves, who could be wealthy, but were still "classed" below a freeborn man. At the bottom of the pile were the slaves.

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