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Seventh Grade Social Studies
LaBrache/Rice
5/18/15
Formation of the Roman Republic
A Sequencing Frame
Directions:
Using the information from the chart below, create a Sequencing Brainframe that shows the events leading
up to the formation of the Roman Republic. The events and details are scrambled (one has been done for
you). First, determine the order of the events. Then, match the event with the related details (the italicized
detail is a “thought bubble”). Finally, create a sequencing frame showing the correct order.
Events
509 BCE; Tarquin the
Proud is kicked out of
office
6 – Plebs get greater
power in the government
DETAILS
This shows the start of
a stable society
Only patricians
could hold office
Designed so no single
person can become too
powerful
Council of Plebs:
makes laws that
only affect Plebs
6 – Plebs can join the
priesthood
Debt bondage is
outlawed
367 BCE; One of the two
consuls had to be Plebeian
Plebs leave city to start a
new Rome w/ their own
gov't
Plebeians return to Rome
287 BCE; Plebeians get
equality; make laws that
affect all
494 BCE; Pleb Rebellion
“Conflict of Orders”
450 BCE; Twelve Tables
were written down
Patricians controlled the
republic
Patricians = only 5 % of
Roman population
Start of the Republic
This is how Plebs
become Senate
members
The power of each branch
of government is
"checked" by the others
Tribunes of the
Plebs: can veto
Senate Laws,
later became part
of the Republic
Plebs rebel b/c not enough
rights but have to serve in
army and pay taxes
Formation of the Roman Republic
A Sequencing Frame
Directions:
Using the information from the chart below, create a Sequencing Brainframe that shows the events leading
up to the formation of the Roman Republic in order. The events and details are scrambled. First, determine
the order of the events. Then, match the event with the related details (the italicized detail is a “thought
bubble”). Finally, create a sequencing frame showing the correct order.
Events
1 – 509 BCE; Tarquin the
Proud is kicked out of
office
6 – Plebs get greater
power in the government
4 – Plebeians return to
Rome
DETAILS
5- this shows the start
of a stable society
1 - designed so no
single person can
become too powerful
7 – 287 BCE; Plebeians
get equality; make laws
that affect all
6-Plebs can join the
priesthood
3 – 494 BCE; Pleb
Rebellion - Conflict of
Orders
1 - Start of the
Republic
5 – 450 BCE; Twelve
Tables were written down
2 – Patricians controlled
the republic
6a- this is how Plebs
become Senate
members
2 - only patricians
could hold office
6a- 367 BCE; One of the
two consuls had to be
Plebeian
4- Council of
Plebs: makes laws 3- Plebs leave city to start a
that only affect
new Rome w/ their own
Plebs
gov't
6- debt bondage
is outlawed
7 -The power of each
branch of government is
"checked" by the others
2 - patricians= only 5 % of
Roman population
4- Tribunes of the
Plebs: can veto
Senate Laws,
later became part
of the Republic
3- Plebs rebel b/c not
enough rights but have to
serve in army and pay
taxes