MAIN QUESTION :
• What was the significance of the Conflict of the Orders in the development of the Roman Republic and in subsequent Western social and political history? Why does it matter?
– What were the major issues in what historians call the Conflict [or Struggle] of the Orders in the early history of the Roman Republic?
– How did the plebeians resist patrician domination? [Put another way, how did the seemingly powerless majority group resist the domination of the powerful minority group?]
– What political rights did the plebeians gain in this conflict?
– How did these gains give them more power in the Republic?
– What are the larger implications of the outcome of this Conflict?