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The importance of membership in a gens declined considerably in imperial times.
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As numbers of gens de couleur grew, the French rulers enacted discriminatory laws.
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Much of an individual's social standing depended on the gens to which he belonged.
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The gens Julia was one of the most ancient patrician families at Ancient Rome.
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The plebeian gens of the Marcii claimed that they were descended from Marsyas.
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The standard explanation of how the inheritance of gens works is as follows.
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Everything the plebeian possessed or acquired legally belonged to the gens.
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After his demands were refused, he attempted to incite the gens de couleur to revolt.
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A gens could be as small as a single family, or could include hundreds of individuals.
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- Name: family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name"
- In ancient Rome, a gens (or), plural gentes, referred to a family, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a stirps (plural stirpes). ...
- In animal behaviour, a gens (pl. gentes) or host race is a host-specific lineage of a brood parasite species. Brood parasites such as cuckoos, which use multiple host species to raise their chicks, evolve different gentes, each one specific to its host species. ...
- Gens is a free Sega Genesis emulator. It runs on Windows systems (using DirectX), on Linux (using SDL) and on Microsoft's Xbox. A port to the Sega Dreamcast, known as Gens4All, is currently in development. Development of Gens began in 1999. As of July 2006, the current version (2. ...
- (Gened) In formal education, a curriculum (plural: curricula, or curriculums) is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. ...
- A legally defined unit of Roman society closest in meaning to and translated by English clan, but not identical to it. The gens was a collection of families whose members were related by birth, marriage or adoption. ...
- (Gen-ed) General-education or university requirements. A set of requirements every UO student must complete, no matter what their declared major.
- (Latin) a family group in Rome; members of the same gens shared common property, the right to inherit, a common burial place, religious rites, and the same name.
- Latin, an influential group of families
