<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (July 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (July 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Social class in ancient Rome was hierarchical, but there were multiple and overlapping social hierarchies, and an individual's relative position in one might be higher or lower than in another . The status of freeborn Romans during the Republic was established by: </P> <Ul> <Li> ancestry (patrician or plebeian); </Li> <Li> census rank (ordo) based on wealth and political privilege, with the senatorial and equestrian ranks elevated above the ordinary citizen; </Li> <Li> attainment of honors (the novus homo or self - made man established his family as nobilis ("noble") and thus there were noble plebeians); and </Li> <Li> citizenship, of which there were grades with varying rights and privileges . </Li> </Ul>

What were the three main social classes in ancient rome