Patrician

means every citizen was expected to have a job in governing the state. The aristocracy had dominated the Roman Republic. The aristocracy were also known as patricians. They were the wealthy high class people. The highest positions in the government were the two consuls, or leaders, who ruled over the Roman Republic. A senate full of patricians would elect these consuls. The plebeians during this time had no say in the government. The plebeians were the poor lower class people. Men and women were…

for the Reformation. One advantage for the Reformation that the Renaissance provided, was the expansion of the european commercial empire. The expansion created the social classes of Patricians, Artisans, and propertyless/unemployed workers. Patricians were the highest and wealthiest of the social classes. Patricians wealth came from capitalistic enterprises in trade/industry, which helped them rule the lower communities. The next class, the Artisans consisted of shopkeepers and were seen as…

of the last Etruscan king. Executive power shifted from the king to two elected officials called consuls. Those who elected the consuls were those in the Patrician class who were families of the men in the Senate. As the Patricians elected who takes the seat of a consul, the actions of the consuls were representative to the needs of the Patrician class and ignored the needs of the lower class plebeians. Plebeians had gained more representation through a unoffical body called the Concilium…

first true legislation. Before any quality interpretation of the text, it should be noted the context within which the Twelve Tables were constituted. This is described quite clearly in Traditions and Encounters; the text states, “In 449 B.C.E. patricians made a further concession to plebeians by promulgating Rome’s first set of laws, known as the Twelve Tables, which drew upon Greek laws in…

had the right to gather assemblies of the plebs where decisions and resolutions were made. Tribunes also had the right of “intercessio”, which is the power of veto over any act of a magistrate. The first emperor of Rome, Augustus, although a patrician and someone who could not serve as a tribune, took on tribunician power and between 36 and 23 BC, this was the foundation of his position. This was apart of Augustus’ creation of…

of Epirus. Pyrrhus defeated the Romans in battle in 279 B.C., but he had lost a great deal of his army. If faced with another battle, Pyrrhus would lose. 3. The Patricians were a group made up of certain families,…

Some effects of the conquests can be seen as both positive and negative. This assignment asks for the negative effects of the Roman conquests. How would the negative factors affect the people, the government, or their way of life? The Romans grew too sure of themselves, too arrogant and grandiose, inclined to be tyranny regarding the needs of the conquered peoples. They loved the wealth and decadence more than the love of honour or the simplicity of the earlier times (Morey, 1901b). Even one…

prompted The Punic Wars. The first war started in 264 BC and the third and final war ended in 146 BC. During the Second Punic War, a man named Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus led the Roman troops after his Patrician father died in battle. Coming from a well known and respected Patrician family, one of the five great families of Rome in fact, Scipio Africanus had been brought up to eventually participate in the Roman Army. His father was at one time a consul over Rome and…

Rome’s Civil War. His books are split into several different decades of Rome’s rich history. The first series he wrote in History of Rome are broken down in five separate book(s) titled: “Rome under the Kings”, “The Beginning of the Republic”, “The Patricians at Bay”, “War and Politics”, and lastly “The Capture of Rome”. These first five books in the first series layout the history that Livius was writing about in Rome’s earliest inception and during his lifetime. Unfortunately, there was a…

A Roman tribune is an officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by senate and counsels. The Latin word for tribune was tribunes. The word was originally used to indicate an officer connected with a tribe(tribus), or who represented a tribe for a certain purpose. This was indeed the character of the officers who were designated by it in the…