- When first settling, their city- state was ruled by Etruscan conqueror's and other kings
- king was advised by a group of men called the senate
- When the king died, the senate chooses a man from themselves to take the throne
- The man they choose to take the throne must be approved by male citizens
- Rome was controlled mostly by the senate and the patricians
- 500 B.C. Rome threw out the Etruscan rulers and ended monarchy
- The Roman Republic was developed under the influences of the social conflicts between the aristocrats and commoners
- Roman government ended up being a combination of both Greek democracy and an oligarchy
PATRICIANS AND PLEBEIANS
- Patricians were the aristocrats
- Plebeians were the commoners, you were a plebeian if you did not belong to a Patrician family
- In early times the senate was about 300 Patrician men, 2 of them were consuls
- The consuls led the army and government for one year terms
- Consuls appointed senators and chose their own successors
- Consuls had the ability to veto the others law making proposals
- Romans always put two men in charge of the same magistracy to avoid becoming a monarchy again
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