The wealthiest citizens of ancient rome were
a. farmers
b. laborers
c. plebeians
d. patricians.

The wealthiest citizens in ancient Rome were: D. Patricians

Patricians refers to the ruling class of the ancient Rome, who had the power to influence the type of legislation that implemented in the society. Since they can easily influenced the fate of merchants/traders, many of them pay a lot of money to obtain a good favor from the patricians, and this make them very wealthy.

a.   it resulted in widespread unemployment.

to reform the distraught soviet union, the democratization of the communist party was promoted through party secretary mikhail gorbachev's policies of “perestroika” and “glasnost.” perestroika refers to the reconstruction of the political and economic system established by the communist party.