HIST 1001 Chapter : Decline Of The Roman Republic
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They would move their families: rich people bought up the farms and bought slaves to farm up, the small roman soldier farmer is being replaced by plantation agriculture. Anyone doing the work is unhappy about it. (spartacus: slave revolts were put down by armed force, they go to the cities to seek their fortunes but there are no opportunities. People don"t have enough food, housing is expensive, riots. You have to have clients, and you need to get publicity. He can recruit anybody, his soldiers are loyal to him not loyal to rome: we no longer have roman armies we have general armies. Maruis still tries to follow the rules of the constitution: sulla (138-78 bc) took over the roman government in 85 bc, and throws out the constitution completely, pompey (106-48 bc) brings along julius caesar.
