The rise of the Roman Republic
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- The Rise of the Roman Republic (told by the Patricians)
- ITŚ NOT FAIR, HOW COME YOU HAVE ALL THE POWER AND WE DONT, I DONT GET IT!!!!!!
- WELL, you see, we are rich and wealthy, while you... just arent in the ¨rich¨ section like us, so you sont have any rights.
- Lucius, We have to drive out the last Etruscan King, but how?
- IDK right now Iĺl think about it.
- LETS GO UP TO THAT HILL UP THERE, AND STAY THERE UNTIL THEY CHANGE THE POWER SYSTEM, WHAT DO YOU THINK!!??
- YEAH, LET´S LEAVE THIS RETCHED PLACE, WE WANT EQUALITY!!! LETS TELL ALL OF THE PLEBEIANS!!
- In 616 B.C.E, The Etruscans ruled the Romans. The Etruscans while in rule decided to do the best idea EVER, separate the Romans into two groups. The Plebeians and the Patricians. The Plebeians were the lower class with no Rights and no room in Government, HAHA, while we, the Patricians had all the power and were rich, we could also contribute in government.
- HEY, GUESS WHAT!!!
- What?
- YAY, NOW WE ARE ALL EQUAL!!
- But in 509 B.C.E, a group led by Lucius Brutus rebelled and drove out the last Etruscan King. We were sad, but we didn't want to lose our power, so we didn't. After we had formed a republic, which is a type of government where you elect your leaders. We, the Patricians voted on the Senate, a group of 300 people who had the most power, and that was that. The Patricians and the Plebeians had many fights about how they didnt have that much power, or no power.
- WHO'S LAUGHING NOW PUNK!!! HAAAAA.
- All was going well for us, until 494 BCE, when all of the Plebeians left Rome and went to a hill to stay there until they got more power. Rome was getting destroyed since there weren't any soldiers to defend the city, we knew that we couldn't just leave the Plebeians on that hill, so we had no choice, but to compromise.
- Then something even worse happened to us, a lot worse. In 451 B.C.E, the plebeians demanded the laws be transcribed and written down, so we couldn't change any of them at will. And in 367 B.C.E, they also demanded one of the two senators be a plebeian, so plebeians could now be senators. WE WERE OUTRAGED!!!!!!!!!!!
- WE CAN BE SENATORS NOW!!!!
- And, if you or we thought it couldn't get any worse than that, well you are very wrong. In 287 B.C.E, a new law stated something so awful we wanted to cry... It was, that the Plebeians could now make laws. NOOOOO!! And after all of that, we were all equal, and even though we hated it, we couldn't do anything about it even if we wanted to, because the Citizens' association checked and approved or denied the laws you make. We are sad but the plebeians are happy, oh well. THE END!
- ITS NOT FAIR, YOU DONT DESERVE THIS, WERE NOT EQUAL!!! WE SHOULD BE THE ONES MAKING THE LAWS, NOT YOU!!!!!
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