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THE PLEBS
MARCO GUTIERREZ
PLEBEIANS• Plebeians, plebs, plebis.
• Working class in ancient Rome.
• Bakers, farmers, & craftsmen.
• Support family their family and pay their taxes.
LACK OF OPPORTUNITY• Little to no education.
• Excluded from colleges.
• No knowledge of the laws that governed them.
• No intermarriage with members of the patrician order.
REBELLION • Revolts and Strikes.
• Secessio plebis.
RESULTS • Establishment of plebeian offices.
• The Law of the Twelve Tables.
• Right of intermarriage.
• Access to high government offices and priesthoods.
BECOMING NOBILITY• Between 326 and 304 BCE some plebs became nobility.
• Shared interests.
• Novus homo
WELL KNOWN NOVI HOMINES• Gaius Marius
• Roman general and statesman• Cicero
• Roman philosopher• Lucullus
• Politician• Crassus
• Roman general and politician• Pompeius
• Pompey the Great, military and political leader
SOURCES• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plebs
• http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/plebians.html
• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/464495/plebeian