Conflict of the Orders

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historical event political conflict social conflict struggle for civil rights

The Conflict of the Orders was a prolonged social and political struggle in the early Roman Republic during which the plebeians sought and gradually secured greater rights and protections from the patrician elite.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Conflict of the Orders canonical	2
Struggle of the Orders	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical event ⓘ political conflict ⓘ social conflict ⓘ struggle for civil rights ⓘ
cause	debt bondage of plebeians ⓘ exclusion of plebeians from high religious offices ⓘ lack of written laws ⓘ patrician monopoly on political offices ⓘ social and economic inequality in early Rome ⓘ
country	Roman Republic ⓘ
describedBySource	Dionysius of Halicarnassus NERFINISHED ⓘ Livy NERFINISHED ⓘ
endTime	287 BC ⓘ
hasPart	First Secession of the Plebs NERFINISHED ⓘ Lex Hortensia NERFINISHED ⓘ Licinian–Sextian reforms NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Secession of the Plebs NERFINISHED ⓘ Third Secession of the Plebs NERFINISHED ⓘ creation of the tribunate of the plebs ⓘ publication of the Twelve Tables ⓘ struggle over access to consulship ⓘ struggle over debt bondage ⓘ struggle over land distribution ⓘ struggle over legal equality ⓘ
location	ancient Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ
mainSubject	legal protection ⓘ patrician privilege ⓘ plebeian rights ⓘ political representation ⓘ social inequality ⓘ
opposingParty	patricians ⓘ plebeians ⓘ
result	formal legal equality between patricians and plebeians ⓘ increased political rights for plebeians ⓘ integration of plebeian elite into Roman nobility ⓘ recognition of plebeian assembly decisions as binding on all Romans ⓘ weakening of exclusive patrician control of magistracies ⓘ
significantEvent	First Secession of the Plebs NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Secession of the Plebs NERFINISHED ⓘ Third Secession of the Plebs NERFINISHED ⓘ appointment of the decemviri to write the laws ⓘ creation of the office of plebeian aedile ⓘ creation of the office of tribune of the plebs ⓘ opening of major priesthoods to plebeians ⓘ opening of the consulship to plebeians ⓘ opening of the praetorship to plebeians ⓘ passage of the Lex Hortensia ⓘ passage of the Licinian–Sextian laws ⓘ promulgation of the Law of the Twelve Tables ⓘ
startTime	early 5th century BC ⓘ
timePeriod	early Roman Republic ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tribunes of the Plebs → createdDuring → Conflict of the Orders ⓘ

Concilium Plebis → associatedWithConflict → Conflict of the Orders ⓘ

Aventine Secession → politicalContext → Conflict of the Orders ⓘ

this entity surface form: Struggle of the Orders