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                                  Lower Classes

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                                  -No middle class
                                  -People kept accumulating wealth which made the gap between the rich and the poor continuously grow larger and larger

                                  Commons or Plebeians
                                  -all people who are not wealthy
                                  -working class
                                  -free, not slaves
                                  -lowest class of free people

                                  -born free
                                  -the common style of dress was the toga

                                  Freedpeople
                                  -also part of the plebeian class
                                  -used to be slaves
                                  -able to own land, but not full roman citizens
                                  -couldn't run for political positions or have a high rank in the military
                                  -their children had full citizenship, so it only lasts for one generation

                                  Slaves
                                  -no rights, but sometimes they could earn rights
                                  -owned by other people
                                  -could earn freedom
                                  -became a slave if couldn't pay off debt, captured in war, or born into it
                                  -not based on race



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