So what I have gotten from the first couple of pages is that Greek city states are starting to get over populated, because of this there is a shortage of food. So in order to compensate for that the government took its first steps towards municipal socialism. Which meant that liberals would be in power now. Of course the poor people of Rome did not like that. They lived in squalor. These people started to riot but if never was enough what these people were never really unified so this caused them. But this was even worst by the countryside, ex-soldiers had nothing the selling of peasants declined because the city started to import cheap grain. So people started to move away from the land to a more urban life. But this really helped them. The Italian peasants to the total population when down by 20 -25 % between 202 and 27.
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Even though some smallholders survived most of the population was made up of plebs. Tiberius heard of this so he said anyone that joins his army will get a distribution of land. If you didn’t guess the rich people didn’t like that, because they owned most of it. This gave the brothers the name champions of the poor against the
Even though some smallholders survived most of the population was made up of plebs. Tiberius heard of this so he said anyone that joins his army will get a distribution of land. If you didn’t guess the rich people didn’t like that, because they owned most of it. This gave the brothers the name champions of the poor against the