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Can the Patricians and Plebeians move up or down the social ladder?
Yes they could. Some patrician clans became plebeian over time. Some patrician clans became extinct. Some patrician men had themselves adopted by plebeian families so as to give up their patrician status because they wanted to become plebeian tribunes. Some plebeian notables were elevated to patrician status by emperors during the period of rule by emperors.
A plebeian and a patrician are both observed committing the same crime. outcomes best describes how they would be treated under Roman law?
the patrician is judged guilty, as is the plebeian.
Was Cleopatra a patrician or a plebeian?
She was the queen of Egypt. I'm not sure if she actually counted as having Roman citizenship, but she certainly would never have been a plebeian. She also was not from a family from the nobility of Rome which made one a patrician.
What are the names of the ranks in ancient rome?
If you mean classes by "ranks" they were the patrician, the plebeian, the equites, the freeborn, the freed, and the slaves. If you mean the military ranks, there were the common soldiers, the "miles" the centurions (eleven grades), the tribunes and the legates. If you mean political ranks, there were the aesiles, quaestors, tribunes, praetors and consuls.
Which of the following scenarios would not be allowed in Rome after the Twelve Tables introduced the concept of equality before the law?
The same evidence shows that both plebeian and a patrician committed assault. The plebeian is found guilty, while the patrician is found innocent.
