What are the different between patricians and plebeians in ancient Rome?

Answer 1

patricians were upperclass people who owned land and had most of the power

plebeians were the working class who didn't have any power at first

in a sense, rome was an oligarchy because the patricians had the most power until the republic crumbled

Answer 2

At the beginning of the city the two classes were distinct. The patricians were the wealthy ones and the plebeians were the poor ones. Over time, (Rome had a long history) both classes even edout and there were few differences between them. The main difference was in the spelling of certain names.

At the beginning of the city the two classes were distinct. The patricians were the wealthy ones and the plebeians were the poor ones. Over time, (Rome had a long history) both classes even edout and there were few differences between them. The main difference was in the spelling of certain names.

At the beginning of the city the two classes were distinct. The patricians were the wealthy ones and the plebeians were the poor ones. Over time, (Rome had a long history) both classes even edout and there were few differences between them. The main difference was in the spelling of certain names.

At the beginning of the city the two classes were distinct. The patricians were the wealthy ones and the plebeians were the poor ones. Over time, (Rome had a long history) both classes even edout and there were few differences between them. The main difference was in the spelling of certain names.

At the beginning of the city the two classes were distinct. The patricians were the wealthy ones and the plebeians were the poor ones. Over time, (Rome had a long history) both classes even edout and there were few differences between them. The main difference was in the spelling of certain names.

At the beginning of the city the two classes were distinct. The patricians were the wealthy ones and the plebeians were the poor ones. Over time, (Rome had a long history) both classes even edout and there were few differences between them. The main difference was in the spelling of certain names.

At the beginning of the city the two classes were distinct. The patricians were the wealthy ones and the plebeians were the poor ones. Over time, (Rome had a long history) both classes even edout and there were few differences between them. The main difference was in the spelling of certain names.

At the beginning of the city the two classes were distinct. The patricians were the wealthy ones and the plebeians were the poor ones. Over time, (Rome had a long history) both classes even edout and there were few differences between them. The main difference was in the spelling of certain names.

At the beginning of the city the two classes were distinct. The patricians were the wealthy ones and the plebeians were the poor ones. Over time, (Rome had a long history) both classes even edout and there were few differences between them. The main difference was in the spelling of certain names.

Answer 3

Birth was the difference between the two classes. Yes, each class had its own voting procedures and elected their own officials and at about the mid republic one consul had to be a patrician and the other a plebeian, but it was person's birth that determined his class. (A person was not "stuck" in his birth class, but that is a different matter than is being answered here) The two classes were considered the nobility and both classes had rich and poor.

The patricians were an aristocracy which considered itself superior and entitled to privilege. The plebeians were the commoners (both rich and poor). The patricians dominated the state and politics in the Early Republic.

The plebeians obtained their own voting assembly (the plebeian council) and officials (the plebeian tribunes) and access to the offices of state through the direct actions and agitations of the plebeian movement in the Conflict of the Orders (a conflict between patricians and plebeians).

It was the rich plebeians who gained access to power within the state through their leadership of the plebeians movement whose rank and file was the poor plebeians. These rich plebeian were eventually co-opted into a patrican-plebeian oligarchy. They were given equite (cavalryman) status and this order was turned into the lower tier of the nobility. The patricians constituted the higher tier of the nobility.

The poor plebeians were not included in the equite order. They just remained poor. Moreover, the ennobled rich plebeians turned their back on the poor and the latter's economic grievance were never addressed properly.

There were patricians who were poor, but their level of poverty was not comparable to that of the multitude of the poor. The poorest people sometimes had to resort to selling their children as slaves to manage to get by.

Answer 4

At the beginning of the city the two classes were distinct. The patricians were the wealthy ones and the plebeians were the poor ones. Over time, (Rome had a long history) both classes even edout and there were few differences between them. The main difference was in the spelling of certain names.

Answer 5

Patricians were middle class amd plebians were lower class. Hope that helps.

Answer 6

The patricians were the aristocracy and the plebeians were the commoners