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A 7 page paper that examines the civil wars occurring within the realm of Rome from 133 BC to 31 BC. Discussed are the many rulers of Rome beginning with Tiberius in 133 BC and ending with Octavius' victory over Marc Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC as well as the civil wars that raged across this century. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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was about to veto his bill of reform. This bill, known as the Land Bill, was conceived in an attempt to take care of the numerous veteran Roman soldiers
who found themselves homeless after the simultaneous ends of the Fourth Macedonia and the Third Punic as well as to improve the quality of the active Roman army (Knox http://history.
idbsu.edu/westciv/romanrev/02.htm). According to Roman political tradition, to veto a bill, which in Latin means "to deny" it, the opposing tribune had only to send a speaker to the podium
to publicly voice his opposition (Knox http://history.idbsu.edu/westciv/romanrev/04.htm). When the opposing tribune made the motion to carry out this accepted tradition by approaching the podium, however, the intended speaker was
seized by Tiberius men and spirited from the gathering. Without formal and public acknowledgment, the veto was proclaimed invalid and Tiberius bill passed into legislation as planned. The differences
between Tiberius and the Senate escalated to a point where Tiberius, an accomplished military leader, organized his followers into an army. The Senate, who felt economically and personally threatened
by the terms of Tiberius reforms due to their insufficient overall understanding of politics and their "exaggerated notion of personal dignity, began organizing an army of their own (Marshall University
http://webpages.marshall.edu/ ~lloydc/RomCivWars.html). The armies of the Senate ultimately overtook Tiberius, killing the leader and three hundred of his followers (Knox http://history.idbsu.edu/ westciv/romanrev/06.htm). The Land Act among other social reforms
were not quite squelched, however, for following the death of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, his younger brother Gaius stepped in to oversee the implementation of the reforms. Gaius was popular
among the common people of Rome, but when he proposed Roman citizenship for a number of Italian allies he lost a large amount of this popularity. Due to this
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