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Flashback
What was the significance of the Punic Wars?
What year marks the beginning of Rome?
What happened in that year?
What point of the Punic Wars is this map describing?
Fall of the Republic
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Gap between rich patricians and poor plebeians grew
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Farmers especially suffered
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Why do you think this is?
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Hannibal trampled the land during the Second
Punic War
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Farmers were fighting in the war
Fall of the Republic
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latifundia: large farming estates
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Small farmers couldn’t couldn’t compete with rich
Romans buying up land and creating latifundia
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Rich landowners used slaves
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Where did the slaves come from?
The Fall of the Republic
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Small farmers were forced out of
business
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So what did they do?
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Slaves did most of the work
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Corrupt politicians gave food and
entertainment to the poor to win
their votes
The Fall of Rome
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Reforms fell through
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Tiberius and Gaius
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Take public land from the rich and divide it among
the poor
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Men were killed by Senate
The Fall of Rome
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Marius, a military leader, became
a consul
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Made the military a paid position
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What problems would this
create?
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Soldiers were not loyal; worked
for monetary rewards
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Loyal to their generals; not
their country
The Fall of the Republic
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Sulla, a military general, drove out Marius
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Made himself dictator
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Stepped down from office and thought the Republic had
healed
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Rome fell into civil wars
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Ambitious men saw how Sulla rose to power; they
decided to follow the same path
Julius Caesar
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Roman leaders battled for
power, supported by local
armies
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Three of these men were
Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar
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Formed the First Triumvirate