western civ blog 44

Today on our online western civ class we had to write what the main differences were between Roman patricians and plebeians, and write what were the Greek versions of patricians and plebeians? To start, Roman patricians were the wealthy upper class people. They were the ruling class of the early Roman Empire. Only certain families were part of the patrician class and you had to be born a patrician. Everyone else who wasn't patricians, was considered a plebeian. That brings me to the next thing, plebeians were considered the formal class. This group held its their own meetings, and elected its own officials and kept its own records. The term plebeian referred to all free Roman citizens who were not members of the patrician, senatorial or equestrian classes. That was all the research I did on patricians and plebeians. In my own words, I believe that the main difference between these two is that the patricians were the more wealthy group and the plebeians were the less wealthy.