Gracchi 180-121BC Flashcards
What was the Lex Villa Annalis and when was it made.
a law that set age requirements for the cursus honorum made in 180BC
What problems did the sacking of Carthage and Corinth in 146BC cause
-Rome is now the largest empire meaning that they now import corn overseas as it undercuts there prices
-This means many rural farmers move to Rome meaning a large increase in urban poor politically unaligned
What did senators do in 146BC and why was it bad?
-they moved there estates into public farm land which was illegal
-the limit was 500 Iugera which was meant to be checked by Censors but wasn’t
-The was a massive slave population working on them which made a fear of revolt and increased job loss
What was the Lex Gabina and when was it made?
A law that granted privacy when voting in 139BC
What does Tiberius Gracchus do in the Numantine war in 139BC
He brokers a peace treaty but the senate don’t agree and try to exile him successfully exiling the consul at the time Marcinius instead of him
Describe Tiberius Gracchus’ family connections and feats before 139BC
-Scippio Africanist was his father who defeated hannibal
-he was said to be the first man to jump the wall in the Carthaginian war
-Is married to Cornelia (Scippios wife) so has patrician connections
What are Tiberius Gracchus’s Agrarian laws and when were they made (when he became tribune)
133BC, shares land from senators who are over the land amount and gives it to plebs
What happens between the Agrarian Commission and Marcus Octavius
-They were a group made of The Gracchi brothers and there friend Appias Claudius Pulcher and were trying to pass there agrarian laws
-Marcus became tribune and vetoed the bill until Tiberius bypassed the senate and had him removed from the tribune
-he only had one year in power as a tribune which is why he did this
How and Why is Tiberius killed
-He tries to run for tribune again in 132BC even though its illegal
-The pontifex maximus kills him and 300 of his followers
When does Gaius Gracchus become tribune and what laws does he suggest
-123BC
-the Lex Frumentaria, corn at a set market price so sellers cant make there own
-proposes Italians become citizens which is vitoed
Why, when and how is Gaius Gracchus killed
-121BC
-tries to run for consul again
-senate pass SCU (proscriptions) and kill 3000 of his allies
-Gaius kills himself
-he wanted to settle the Carthage land
-King Attalus king of Pergamom dies giving land to the senate which Gaius tries to add to the Agrarian bill
