- the soldiers
- if you needed to attack someone they would do it
- the "police"
- or army
- divided into two section:
- one legion is 5000 people
- they did not got paid
- people joined the legion because they were in it to do it
- no women
century:
- 80 people
infantry:
- soldiers on foot, marching
- "ground troops:
Calvary:
- soldiers/ men on horses
Punic wars:
- three wars
- first war:
- fought over Sicily
- second war:
- Hannibal
- third war:
- romans attacked carthage
- Rome won all of them
- punic wars were important history
- latifundia: great estate
- men go off to war and leave their wives at home
- women are forced to sell the farm to a wealthy aristocrat
- wives now have to work for the aristocrat
- when the men come home they move to the city or Rome to try to find work
- everyone is there now because most of the women sold their farm
Gracchus brothers:
- rich are getting richer
- poor are getting poorer
- middle class is evaporating
- came up with reasonable solution:
- went to senate and said that this isn't fair
- give some of the land back to the people that sold
- got a law passed saying that the rich had to give back their land
- senate then came and beat to death and killed Tibirius Gracchus and threw his body in the Tiber river
- people buy up family farms
- made chickens have bigger breasts as a way to get more money for the chicken but that isn't fair
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