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1. Populares popular aristocratic reformers trying to provide displaced impoverished farmers and peasants with land and programs to assist them Optimates established leaders of the Senate 3. Gracchi brothers two popular reformers.....(tiberius and gaius) ....Tiberius a tribune (political representative of the people in the Senate),-obtained passage of a bill in a popular assembly to distribute portions of public lands to landless peasants (murdered by mob from Senate) Gaius, younger brother, tribune in 123 B.C., instituted a program to supply grain at subsidized prices to the poor; juries would be drawn from wealthy NON-SENATORS...committed suicide (Equites wealthy non senators, able to own a horse, but not aristocratic Gaius Marius consul in 107—(a "novus homo"—political contender without influence of family birth) "Reign of Terror"—seized Rome and murdered or exiled enemies (87 B.C.) 5. Lucius Cornelius Sulla Marius' rival; gained control of Pontus and Black Sea, rid of Mithridates, victorious return to Rome, defeated Marius, granted title of "dictator" by Senate; died in 78 B.C. in Campania 6. Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey the Great") defeated Marian forces in Africa and Spain—granted the title "Magnus" by the Senate; defeated the last of the rebels of Spartacus (although Crassus had done the majority of the work in defeating the rebels); 67 B.C. defeated the pirates terrorizing the seas of Mediterranean; defeated forces of Mithridates once and for all tribune political representative of the people in the Senate