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Fall of the Roman Republic Military leaders showed a greater willingness to coerce the Senate to give them commands, even to the point of marching on Rome with their troops (which Sulla and Caesar both did). The Social War, a civil war between Rome and its allies (non-citizen Italian cities), got many used to fighting traditional Roman legions. After the Second Punic War (218202 BC), more and more land in Italy was assimilated into large farms that employed slaves. This left a large number of citizens without land. The Senate lost the leadership of the military. The generals tended to be not from old senatorial families. The Senate was jealous of the power of these generals, and didn’t want to share land Soldiers who didn’t own any land with their landless soldiers. It were taken into the army, and after refused to give Pompey’s fighting for several years, they came veterans any land, and continued back to Rome expecting land to fight Caesar’s attempt to get allotments as a reward for their them land when he was consul. service.