Secessio in historical terms refers to the exercise of power by Rome's plebian citizens; who simply abandoned the city en masse and left the patrician order to themselves. This was an effective strategy due to their strength in numbers; plebian citizens made up the majority of Rome's populace as they were the common man of the Republic while the patrician citizen was a member of the minority upper class. The word has survived to the modern day in the term secession; meaning to bodily seperate one group for another. The United States was born by it's secession from the British Empire; and the bloodiest war in U.S. history was the result of a coalition of Southern states known as The Confederacy seceeding from the Union and causing the American Civil War between the North and the South. In Ancient Rome, the plebs was the general body of Roman citizens, distinct from the privileged class of the patricians. ... Patricians were originally the elite caste in ancient Rome. ... In Ancient Rome, the plebs was the general body of Roman citizens, distinct from the privileged class of the patricians. ... Patricians were originally the elite caste in ancient Rome. ... Jump to: navigation, search The examples and perspective in this article do not represent a worldwide view. ... Jump to: navigation, search The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps The British Empire was the worlds first global power and the largest empire in human history, a product of the European Age of Exploration that began with the... Jump to: navigation, search The American Civil War (1861–1865) was fought in North America within the United States of America, between twenty-three mostly northern states of the Union and the Confederate States of America, a coalition of eleven southern states that declared their independence and claimed the right...