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Attributed by Livy to the sixth Roman king, Servius Tullius, [3] the urban tribes were named for districts of the city and were the largest and had the least political power. In the later Republic, poorer people living in the city of Rome itself typically belonged to one of these tribes. [ 4 ]
A Roman denarius of 63 BC: a voter casting a ballot. A tribus, or tribe, was a division of the Roman people for military, censorial, and voting purposes. When constituted in the comitia tributa, the tribes were the voting units of a legislative assembly of the Roman Republic. [1] [2]
Example of higher class Roman men. Social class in ancient Rome was hierarchical, with multiple and overlapping social hierarchies. An individual's relative position in one might be higher or lower than in another, which complicated the social composition of Rome. [1] The status of freeborn Romans during the Republic was established by:
Roman tribes (originally there were three tribes: Luceres, Ramnes and Tities, later with Roman expansion increased to 35) Roman gentes (sing. gens - clan) (originally they were only Roman Latins, but later, with Roman expansion, several clans of other peoples were also included, such as the Sabines, Etruscans and other Italics)
Each tribe voted separately and one after the other. In each tribe, decisions were made by majority vote, and its decision counted as one vote regardless of how many electors each tribe held. Once a majority of tribes had voted in the same way on a given measure, the voting ended, and the matter was decided. [1]
This would coincide with the idea that ancient Rome was founded on a merit-based ideal. [1] According to other opinions, the patricians ( patricii ) were those who could point to fathers, i.e., those who were members of the clans ( gentes ) whose members originally comprised the whole citizen body.
The extent to which an archeological culture is representative of a particular cohesive ancient group of people is open for debate; many of these cultures may be the product of a single ancient Italian tribe or civilization (e.g. Latial culture), while others may have been spread among different groups of ancient Italian peoples and even ...
The concept of the gens was not uniquely Roman, but was shared with communities throughout Italy, including those who spoke Italic languages such as Latin, Oscan, and Umbrian as well as the Etruscans, whose language was unrelated. All of these peoples were eventually absorbed into the sphere of Roman culture. [1] [2] [3] [4]