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Thursday, September 6th

• 2.4.6 day

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• Agenda:

• Growing Unrest in the Republic Notes
• Engineering an Empire video
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Friday, September 7th

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• To do Today

• Notes (1st 20 minutes)
• Engineering an Empire (remaining time of class)

Goals:

• Understand how the Republic of Rome led to revolts.

• Understand the impact of slavery in Rome.

• View how the empire of Rome was engineered (video)

By 2nd century B.C., the Senate had become the governing body of the Roman State.

• By 2nd century B.C., the Senate had become the governing body of the Roman State.

• Members were mostly the wealthy landed aristocracy

• Remained senators for life

• In charge of the wars, foreign and domestic affairs

• Regular people, or plebeians, did not like this

Senate was controlled by the wealthy

• Senate was controlled by the wealthy

• Small farmers were unable to compete with large, wealthy landowners and lost their land

• (kind of like Wal-Mart!)

• Wealthy land owners used slave labor, which meant they made more money for less labor

• Landless farmers drifted into the cities, creating a large class of poor

Two brothers

• Two brothers

• Urged the Council of Plebs to pass alnd-reform bills

• Called for the government to take back public land held by large landowners and give it to the landless Romans (poor)

• RESULT: Senators were furious

• They later killed both brothers

The reforms of the Gracchus brothers angered the senate, which saw them as a threat to its power.

• The reforms of the Gracchus brothers angered the senate, which saw them as a threat to its power.

• The brothers and thousands of their followers were killed in waves of street violence set off by senators and their hired thugs.

Recruiting Armies in new ways

• Recruiting Armies in new ways

• 107 B.C., General Marius became consul

• Recruited his armies by promising the rural poor that he would give them land if they swore an oath to HIM, not to Rome.

• Result: This type of army was not in government control.

• More power in the hands of the generals

Was given command of a war in Asia by the Senate

• Was given command of a war in Asia by the Senate

• The council of plebs tried to stop this
• Instead, he took over Rome with his army, and conducted a reign of terror.

• He restored power to the Senate, and eliminated the power of people in assemblies.

• Legacy= Seize power with an army

Built lavish mansions

• Built lavish mansions

• luxuries

• Huge estates; called latifundia.

• Those captured in war to work as slaves

The widespread use of slave labor= hurt small farmers

• The widespread use of slave labor= hurt small farmers

• Were unable to produce food as cheaply

• The farmers’ problems :

• huge quantities of grain pouring in from the conquered lands drove down grain prices.
• Many farmers fell into debt and had to sell their land

What they did:

• What they did:

• landless farmers flocked to Rome and other cities looking for jobs.

• There, they joined an already restless class of unemployed people. As the gap between rich and poor widened, angry mobs began to riot.

• In addition, the new wealth led to increased corruption.