jan 1, 498 BC - SPQR

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Long series of concessions:
Leaders elected to defend interests of
plebeians - have their own Popular Assembly
§ All major offices eventually opened up to
plebeians
§ Patricians initially said – ‘it would be a
crime against the gods to let a plebeian be
consul”
§ One of the consulships would be a plebeian
§ The Twelve Tables
§ Code of Written Laws
§ Senatus Populusque Romanus –
§ “The Senate & People of Rome”

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