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Now, we're going to go over what we've done in class today.

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Today we talked about social classes in ancient Rome.

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By the end of this video, we'll be able to distinguish between the two classes in ancient Rome at this time.

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We know that these were the patricians and the plebeians.

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We're also going to be able to explain the role of each of these class groups at the time.

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So what do we know about patricians?

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We know that they were rich members in society.

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They had all the power and made all the decisions in ancient Rome.

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They controlled the government and the army.

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They served in the Senate which was a council which made important decisions

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in Rome. They could also be military generals or governors. We can see from

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the picture that they wore expensive and decorated clothes. The men wore long

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togas and the women wore stolas. They also lived in a house called the domus.

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We'll be seeing more of this in the next section of our website. On the other

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side we find the plebeians. They were the poorer class of people. They made up most

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of the population but they had no power. They were farmers, traders and served in the army.

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They were given a dull payment of free grain. This was so that they would stay loyal and support the

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rule of the patricians who made up very little of the population. We can see from the picture that

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the men wore very plain clothing, a short tunic and the women wore a plain stula. They lived in

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an insulate which was an apartment block. It was nothing like a domus and we will be talking about

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this in the next section of our website finally i want you to think about the role of women at this

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time do you think they were equal to the men do you think they went to school and if so did they

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learn the same things as the boys and if they didn't go to school what do you think they did

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instead how do you feel about this is it fair we'll have a discussion on this in the next class