Tiberius Gracchus

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Tiberius Gracchus became tribune in 133 B.C.E., and his main proposals involved land reform. (Western Heritage, 116) The land reform specifically targeted was public land that had been acquired illegally by the nobility, with the main goal to redistribute certain…

important kingdoms in world history. However, even the great and mighty Rome fell after 509 years of power and prosperity. There were three significant events that led to Rome’s demise: the murder of the Gracchus brothers, the tetrarchy of Diocletian, and the Battle of Adrianople. The Gracchus brothers’ assassination set the precedent of the gaining…

Unsurprisingly perhaps, Gaius met the same fate as his brother Tiberius when the nobles rallied against him and his supporters, resulting in their deaths. This conflict and violence was unprecedented in Rome before, as Roman constitution had no written rule for their laws, but rather relied on a tradition in which those in power would come to an agreement through compromise, as opposed to engaging in a power struggle. The clash between the Gracchus brothers and the senates proved the…

Tiberius Gracchus tried to resolve these problems. He became a tribune on a land reform program and had help to help him draft a bill. The main problem was public land that had been taken and help illegally. The bill Tiberius proposed said landholders could keep up to five hundred iugura, but any more than that and it would be redistributed in small lots to the…

powerful in the society of the Roman Republic. The rich got richer, the poor poorer and a few aspiring politicians saw the chance to make a name for themselves using that unfortunate fact in the Roman Republic’s history. This tactic was employed by the Gracchus brothers and that caused a tremor in the lives of the senate but it wouldn’t be enough to topple their golden thrones. It would take the combined effort of three men and the senate themselves to topple the Roman Republic. The First…