Complex sentence: Abbott, 47 This, along with the closeness between the plebeian tribunes and the Senate, helped to create a new plebeian aristocracy, which soon merged with the old patrician aristocracy, creating a combined "patricio-plebeian" aristocracy.
Split into simpler sentences: Abbott, 47 This, along with the closeness between the plebeian tribunes and the Senate, helped to facilitate the creation of a new plebeian aristocracy. This new plebeian aristocracy soon merged with the old patrician aristocracy, creating a combined "patricio-plebeian" aristocracy.