-After the punic War, last 50 thousand people were brought back as slaves
-2 contrary BCE there were over a million slaves
-massive estates: Latifundia
-to keep happy: gave bread away, built circuses
-Tiberius political who worked with the plebeians
Ceasar:
-Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE)
-Made common folks happy
-made friends in high places
-form a group
-Triumvirate: Pompey, crassus, Julius Ceasar
-senators sent a message (leave most of your men at the Rubicome river) "crossing the Rubicon" faced with two forces of action
-Ceasar was elected consul
-dictator for six months then life
-senators stabbed him to death
when he was dictator:
-granted citizenship
-expanded senate
-jobs for the poor
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