History of Western Civilisation - Wednesday 5th Period: Discussion 5: The Roman Republic

[prof-methos.livejournal.com]

Greetings, class. Today, we're going to discuss the Roman Republic.

For your homework, I'd like you to write one hundred words on what you think it would be like to be either a patrician, a plebian, or a slave in the Roman Republic. Due next Tuesday but to be turned in here.

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Re: HOMEWORK: WCiv Disc 5

[sakuracchyan.livejournal.com]

the Roman Republic was a form of government that worked well with a city-state or even a group of powerful city-states in control of a region, not a good government for maintaining a large empire (for this and because of this the empire would eventually rise) By 133 BC Roman politics had become extremely divided around two different factions in the Senate. The first group was the supporters of the aristocracy, the patricians, who supported the wealthy senatorial class. The other group trying to get political power was interested in the interest of the plebeians and known as the Populares. The Populares demanded the redistribution of land to peasants as well as a reform of the voting procedure. The struggle between these two factions resulted in civil war when the Senate ordered the assassination of Tiberius Gracchus in 133 BC. Gracchus had been elected as a high ranking magistrate and had proposed a law that would divide the land and give it to the plebian citizens of Rome.

(Okay so its like... sort of Patrician moreso than Plebian but Plebian is mentioned and I really just typed in "Plebian in the Roman Republic" and it gave me some wierdness. o__O;)