Lower Classes
-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
-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
