CLST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, Proletariat, Pilum
6 Mar 2016
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English word that comes from neme (south of france) denim (fabric from neam), jeans come from genoa. As of 133 bc kingdom of pergamum was willed to the roman people, king died and left his entire kingdom to rome. Gracchus was able to fund his agrarian problem (lex agraria): becomes of province of asia. South of france area was added by 120. Coastal area further into now turkey was added by 100 b. c. Gaius sempronius gracchus and his tribunate, 123 122 b. c: his brother was brutally murdered, people tried to prevent him from gaining any office, but 10 years after his brother, he took the same position of tribunate. Not a step down, tribune politically is just as strong as consul. Don"t have military power, but plenty of legislative power: gaius re-instated the land commission (lex agraria), lex = related to land, and set a fixed price for grain (lex frumentaria, where frumentum means grain in latin).
