Social Structure

The Romans

In ancient Rome their social structure was in order of kings, senators, citizens, non-citizens, and slaves. Their government was a monarchy led by a king supported by his senators. During the period after their monarchy fell they led a republic. It followed the same line of leadership as the monarchy except two differences, there was no king and the citizens were split into two groups, the patricians and plebeians. The first group was the patricians. They had more political rights and better jobs than the other group. The second group is the plebeians who had little political power and more low paying jobs. In all parts of their government there was a mandatory 2 years of military training. Depending if it was a monarchy or not changed the amount of time they had to serve after training.