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Organisation of Rome - Coggle Diagram
Organisation of Rome
Senate
Polybius: "An excellent hybrid of monarchy (consuls), oligarchy (small group of people running a country i.e. the senate), and democracy (the voting people)"
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In sessions, senators and magistrates would have their turns to speak on the issue at hand, and before a decree was passed, it can be vetoed by a tribune
Had the power to declare war, fund campaigns and supply armies, but their main focus was on foreign policy (wars, acquiring new lands etc)
Social
Patricians
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Significant landowners, occupying the privileged position of public affairs
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Plebians
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Does not definitely mean you're poor, you could grow to be as rich as the Patricians
Equites
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Either be born in to an equites family, or have enough wealth to pass the census as an eques
Wealthy, known as 'horse-men' because they owned horses
SPQR (Roman government)
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Magistrates / Offices and posts (consul, censor, cursus honorum etc)
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Nobiles
Optimates
- Aristocratic senatorial families with conservative views
- Aimed to protect the traditions of Rome
- Worked in the interests of oligarchy (a form of government in which power rests with a small number of people)
Populares
- Noble senatorial families
- Aimed to secure power through appealing to the people
Magistrates
Cursus honorum 
Other positions
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