Western Civilization I / Unit 6 WC1 0518 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Gracchi: Land Reform Ends in Murder, 133 and 121
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The idea
The Republic's stability rested on settling elite disputes by votes, never blood. Tiberius Gracchus, tribune, pushed land redistribution through the Assembly; senators clubbed him to death in one thirty-three. Gaius, pressing citizenship for Italians, died in one twenty-one.
In practice
The first murders for politics; power passing from rhetoric to arms.
Where people slip
The commission worked until one eighteen; the precedent was the damage.
Your place on the trail
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