Summary of Mike Duncan's The Storm Before the Storm

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Tiberius Gracchus was the son of Scipio Africanus and Cornelia, and he was a great military leader. He was also present at the siege of Carthage, where he watched the city burn.
#2 After the Second Punic War, the Roman Republic was flooded with treasure, which some senators feared would lead to moral degradation. However, this only affected the small group of noble families who controlled the spoils of war.
#3 The rich families that acquired all the land also bought slaves to work their growing estates. The demand for free labor plummeted just as poor Roman families were being pushed off their land. As a result, the poor tenants became peasants forever tied to their landlords unless someone came along and offered them a way out.
#4 The Roman Republic faced a crisis in the second century, as the rich pushed the poor off the land, leaving less citizens able to meet the minimum property requirement to be drafted. The Romans had faced similar crises in the past, and responded by lowering the property requirement to bring more men under arms.

Sujets

• Rome
• Roma (serie de televisión)
• ancient

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 08 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669351269
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Mike Duncan's The Storm Before the Storm
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Tiberius Gracchus was the son of Scipio Africanus and Cornelia, and he was a great military leader. He was also present at the siege of Carthage, where he watched the city burn.

#2

After the Second Punic War, the Roman Republic was flooded with treasure, which some senators feared would lead to moral degradation. However, this only affected the small group of noble families who controlled the spoils of war.

#3

The rich families that acquired all the land also bought slaves to work their growing estates. The demand for free labor plummeted just as poor Roman families were being pushed off their land. As a result, the poor tenants became peasants forever tied to their landlords unless someone came along and offered them a way out.

#4

The Roman Republic faced a crisis in the second century, as the rich pushed the poor off the land, leaving less citizens able to meet the minimum property requirement to be drafted. The Romans had faced similar crises in the past, and responded by lowering the property requirement to bring more men under arms.

#5

The reformist senators were trying to rebuild the Roman economy by redistributing land from the rich to the poor. They came up with a novel piece of legislation called the Lex Agraria that would allow them to do so.

#6

The Lex Agraria was a law passed by the Roman Senate in 123 BC that sought to redistribute land to the landless. It was designed to help the poor, but it was mostly ignored by the rich, who were able to lease excess land from the state.

#7

The Lex Agraria, which was designed to redistribute land to the farmers who worked on it, was extremely controversial. It was proposed by the Claudian faction, and it would take away all the miserable tenants’ political allegiance and transfer it to the Claudian faction.

#8

The Lex Agraria, which was passed by the Roman Senate in 134, gave land to the poor and confiscated land from the rich. It was opposed by a large faction in the Senate, and was passed by direct appeal to the Assembly.

#9

The Lex Agraria, which was a bill introduced by Tiberius Claudius, was meant to benefit the Roman people. However, the rich were able to hire senators to veto the bill, which prevented it from ever being voted on.

#10

The tribunes were eventually forced to put the Lex Agraria to a vote in the Roman Senate. It passed by an overwhelming margin, but not before Tiberius was upbraided by the rich senators, who joined in the attacks on him.

#11

The battle between Tiberius Gracchus and Octavius Gellius was finally won when the latter was deposed from his tribunate. The reform was then passed by the Roman Senate and people were pleased.

#12

The land commission was designed to distribute land to the public, but the Senate was able to defeat it by funding the work of the land commission only enough to cover the daily expenses of the commissioners. This stinginess left Tiberius the captain of a boat with no oars.

#13

Tiberius was tribune again in 133, and he announced his plans to run for reelection. His political strength was at an all-time low, as his supporters were unable to remobilize after the Lex Agraria vote. His opponents prevented the voting from taking place by fighting them off the edge of the crowd.

#14

The tribunes were now threatening to make Tiberius Gracchus king of Rome. The consul presiding over the Senate that morning was none other than Mucius Scaevola, one of the authors of the Lex Agraria. He did not do anything to stop the attack, and instead let the tribunes execute Tiberius.

#15

When Tiberius Gracchus and his allies passed a law that would have given away land to the poor, it caused a huge political conflict that ended with hundreds of people dying. This was the beginning of Roman civil bloodshed and the triumph of naked force.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1