NOTES:
- Tried to keep plebs from revoting
- free grain and circuses to keep them happy
- Tiberius Graccus saw advantages to courting plebs
- gave them land that military had conquered
- Julius Caesar
- 100-44 BC
- Good general
- Conquered Gaul
- Made common people happy
- Also was liked by the upper class
- Pompey, Crassus, Julius formed triumvirate (3 leaders)
- Caesar served as consul for 1 year
- Makes himself governor of Gaul
- Pompey gets jealous, becomes rival
- Armies fight
- Caesar wins
- Named dictator of Rome for life
- Granted citizenship
- Expanded the Senate
- Jobs for poor (public works projects)
- more money for soldiers
- started colonies with those without land could own property
- Assassination
- Senators saw Caesars rise in power as threat
- stabbed him 23 times
- Senators weren't punished
- Octavian became heir to the throne
- END OF REPUBLIC
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