“The richest I% own XCIX% of property!“ - Senator Tiberius Sanders

History does not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes. @ Mark Twain

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This video was a bit naiv in its description of the events as far as historians can recreate those. It seems to go for the old and overturned description of a modern class struggle narrative with a noble Gracchus saving the populace. In reality both sides probably had valid reasons since all those people of the lower classes now would have been in debt to Gracchus after his reform according to the clientele- relationships that were dominant in the Roman society. This many clients would've made him the most powerful man in Rome overnight and would've led to conflicts between already existing client-patron relationships between the people and other senators. To understand the true relationships one has to see the powerful more along their family lines instead of their so-called "classes" (which wasn't really a thing in ancient history). This struggle can be better understood as a power struggle inside the gentes (family ties in a wider sense) of the nobility of the Roman republic

Playing around with the idea of making all the upcoming videos this length tbh

Tbh I would def prefer that man. Your quality in these videos shows itself and 3 min vids just don’t you justice. And when your making a 10 part series I tend to forget parts 1-3 by the time part 10 comes out lol

​@@divifilius2357 seems to be a common feeling! And thank you!

Tbf

Always been a thing

I think you mean Mercantilism. The Romans employed Mercantilism, not a free-market system (a.k.a capitalism).

@@tylerdurden3722 It's accumulation of capital in the hands of few, and the means of production a.k.a. cheap slave labor destroying even subsistence farming. Mercantilism wasn't really defined either but I would rather put a protected trader class in Carthago and Phoenicia.

@@tylerdurden3722 cope

Truth be told I don't rightly know!

@@AncientHistoryGuy I looked it up. Tiberius Gracchus father was a Plebian but was a Consul of Rome. The Gracchus Family was one of the leading Plebian families. His mother was Patrician but Tiberius and his father were both Plebs. So no loophole needed.

@@AncientHistoryGuy minimum property qualification.

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Thankyou! Any suggestions for future documentaries?

@@AncientHistoryGuy love love to vids on some of the famous names of Roman histories whose achievements are forgotten. E.g. Pompey and his campaigns in the east, or maybe lucullus and his war in anatolia

@@blyndblitz Lots of people are asking for Pompey so its definitely on the list!

Thankyou and considering it aye

Roman camps were quite often overrun. Even Alexander's camp was overrun at the Battle of Gaugamela. This particular battle saw the Spanish tribes loot a large amount of treasure from the camp, and because they Respected Tiberius name they would on negotiate with him.

@@AncientHistoryGuy I think I heard it from Dan Carlin and he's admittedly a story teller not a historian. He sometimes doesn't let facts get in the way of a good story.

I don't think this was the marching camp we all know and love. It was probably more like a normal camp with only the baggage train there to defend it. This happened pre-Marian Reforms. After the Marian Reforms, each soldier carried a stake (or two🤔) and a spade, to conctruct camps. With much smaller baggage trains. So things were on a different level after the Marian Reforms.

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This is probably I'm gonna comment on other videos "the shogun has arrived"

@@johnisaiah985 do it!

@@AncientHistoryGuy can you please make a vid next time about the mongol invasion of Japan and the sengoku jidai period

Marius I believe grants them all their citizenship after he defeats the cimbri. Saying he could not tell the difference between the Latins and the Italians in battle. Of course he himself couldn't find where the battle was taking place so he's not very observant evidently.

They actually went to war over this called the “Social War” 91-87BC. Italians demanded Full Roman citizenship and the Senate said NO and crushed the uprising with Consular Armies. However even though the Italians lost the social war only 20 years later the Senate peacefully decided to make all Italians full Roman Citizens.

@@Wallyworld30 I will at somepoint cover the social war. Just a lot going on at mo need some time to breathe!

Woop woop! Welcome to the chaos!

@@AncientHistoryGuy do you have a discord server?

What do you mean? Tiberius Gracchus isn't Trump, Trump is one of the rich elites and grifted his entire party and his supporters. How is Tiberius even like him?

@@regretfultoaster369 Gracchus was also a rich elite (a noble from a very prominent family). He was seen as a disgrace in the eyes of other Elites. Then he became very popular with the "deplorables" of Rome. Simultaneously, as he got more popular, he was despised by the other elites. The rich were getting richer. Cheap labor was being brought in. Etc. Also, propaganda was used by the other elites to demonize him and at the end paint him as wanting to stage a coup. Things precipitated in violent events at the main political building. But they managed to get rid of him and things were able to go back to the normal state of affairs (the status quo)

@@tylerdurden3722 Yes but the difference between Trump and him is Gracchus acted while Trump guised. Gracchus was indeed related to a Scipio and was a noble, but there is evidence that he didn't do it for political power and more for selfless reasons.

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