After the Punic wars, 1/3 of Rome was occupied by enslaved persons, causing the rich to have bigger estates and leave the poor homeless and jobless. Many of these poor farmers joined a group called the urban poor in order to find work. In fact, 1/4 of Rome was in this group. It seemed as if the poor Romans would never have a good life again until Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus came along. These brothers were tribunes for the lower class people of Rome and attempted to help the poor by limiting the land people could own and splitting it with the poor. However, the brothers failed and died horrible deaths. After they died, civil war broke out. During the civil wars, generals would use the people's economic struggles to their advantages so they would fight for them instead of for Rome. Julius Caesar used this strategy in order to become ruler of Rome. First, Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey formed a triumvirate with Caesar as the consul. After his rule was up, Caesar became governor of Gaul a...
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