Gracchi Brothers/ Marius / Sulla
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SammieSadler on January 21, 2012
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17 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Gracchi Brothers | Equites/Lower Classes/POPULARES (Power to the masses) |
| Gracchi Brothers | used tribuneship and council of plebs for reforms |
| Gracchi Brothers | land reform |
| Gracchi Brothers | redistributed land from wealthy land owners to landless Romans |
| Gracchi Brothers | gave equites power = provincial tax collection; provincial jury control |
| Marius | Equites/Lower Classes/POPULARES (Power to the masses) |
| Marius | considered a "novus homo" |
| Marius | gave land to veterans |
| Marius | military reform |
| Marius | placed more power in the hands of individual generals |
| Marius | created a professional army |
| Sulla | Patricians/senate/OPTIMATES (power to the senate) |
| Sulla | used army as a political tool |
| Sulla | re-established power to the senate |
| Sulla | government reform |
| Sulla | forced senate to make him dictator |
| Sulla | eliminated most of the powers of tribunes and the popular assemblies |
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