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Gens and State in Rome
The Roman gens and its constitution of three hundred gentes, curiae, and tribes — and how the plebs, standing outside the gentile populus, forced the Servian reform that replaced descent with property and residence as the basis of public power.
The Roman gens and the populus RomanusPatricians and the plebs outside the gentile orderThe Servian constitution's property classesDescent replaced by territory and wealth