We can gain more insight on our modern problem by turning to ancient Rome for a lesson on how drastically ... patrician class and the non-noble plebeians. The two groups may have sometimes ...

They and their families became known as the patricians (aristocratic class), while the rest of Rome’s free population were ...

The majority of the population were known as plebeians and they had to work ... They had no legal rights in ancient Rome and they were considered to be property. They did a wide variety of work ...