The struggle of the Plebeians to equate with Patricians was a controversy that took place in ancient Rome in the 6th - 3rd century. B.C. between the native population of patricians and the neural layer of the plebeian population. The Plebeians formed a neuronal layer of the inhabitants of ancient Rome. They were descendants of immigrants, free citizens, but they were denied access to higher offices. Military duties were required in particular. However, they soon gained an important economic position (agriculture, craft, and in part trade) and, in patrician clashes, seeking equal rights.
Patricians
Patricians or literally "descendant of a noble father" was a descendant of an ancient
Roman family, and originally only …show more content…
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Establishment function military tribune with consular power (in 444 BC), into which could be elected plebeians and patricians as well, that softened tension between plebeians and patricians (Morey, 1901). From 445 BC, Canuleia's law allowed plebeians to marry with patrician's daughters. In 367 BC they gained plebeian access to the Roman Senate (Morey,
1901). The full equality, namely the share in the government, the administration of the authorities in the Republic by the Hortensian law; thus, creating a fragile balance between the two groups. In the time of the consuls Mark Valeria and Quint Apulia (300 BC) plebeians achieved Ogulni's law that they could hold the priestly rank. Some sacral functions, such as the rex sacrorum, however, reserved exclusively to patricians, until 44 BC.
Disputes culminated in 494 BC. The Plebeians enforced the establishment of the tribune of the people, which preserved the interests of plebeians in the Roman political body in 449 BC, the codification of law, and in the same year, the Roman laws (the "Laws of the