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The plebs, frustrated with heavy debts and no land, left for the Sacred Mountain. Menenius Agrippa told the stomach story to bring them back. Bibliography: https://imperiumromanum.pl/en/curiosities/menenius-agrippas-fable/ -
The plebeians were given the right to elect tribunes as a result of the first secession, and tribunes protected the rights of the plebs. Bibliography:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribune
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There were ten men called the "decemviri" who abused their power and were cruel. The plebs seceded and then the decemviri resigned, and the Twelve Tables were created. Bibliography:
The article we read in class :)
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The Twelve Tables banned intermarriage between patricians and plebeians, and the plebs threatened to secede, so the Lex Canuleia was passed. Bibliography: https://www.britannica.com/topic/plebeian#ref38009 -
These laws are passed, allowing plebeians to be consul and limiting how much land one person can own at a time. Bibliography:
https://fiveable.me/key-terms/world-history-to-1500/licinian-sextian-laws
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This law says that one of the consuls is required to be plebeian, giving the plebs more power. Bibliography: https://time.graphics/event/4113559
Photo: https://www.britannica.com/topic/consul-ancient-Roman-official -
The plebs became allowed to be censors, and required one of the two censors to be plebeians. Bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publilian_laws
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These laws stop allowing the patricians to keep people in debt bondage,
which was a common practice before the laws. Bibliography: https://oxfordre.com/classics/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-8190
Photo: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.romanoimpero.com%2F2020%2F02%2Fgens-poetelia.html&psig=AOvVaw2_Gkr8A8erKoBsv31Zr1x5&ust=1758726601332000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBYQjRxqFwoTCPDZ1KOV748DFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE -
An act that allowed the Senators to be elected not by the consuls, but by the censors.
*Bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plebiscitum_Ovinium
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Plebeians were allowed, under the law, to become priests, which wasn't allowed before. Bibliography:
https://gertitashkomd.com/conflict-of-the-orders-494-287-bce-plebeian-struggle-for-equality-in-early-rome/