... was to reconstitute the free peasantry by distributing state owned "public" land in small allotments to poor citizens. His agrarian law led to a political upheaval and his own death, but the land commission he set up was able to carry out its task, and has left evidence of its ... four years and raged across Italy, Spain, Africa, Greece, Asia and Egypt. His opponent was Pompey the Great, a former ally but now Caesar's political enemy. Together Caesar and Pompey, two of the greatest generals Rome had ever produced, had brought vast stretches of territory under Roman dominion. Now their ....

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... fighting, the gift of the wooden sword gave the gladiator freedom and the respect of the Romans. The Roman Colosseum did serve a political purpose as well as entertainment during its time. Being that it attracted such a large crowd of Romans, it also served as a place ... shortage in corn supplies, so the crowd filled the amphitheatre with shouts of protests. There were many emperors who used the Colosseum as a political tool to control the people and the senate. One example of this is emperor Commodus, who was the son of Marcus Aurelius. Commodus ... ostrich head in the other. Giving t...

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... generation. Marcus Aurelius continued to receive help from emperors throughout his childhood but later assistance would come in the form of his growth in political power. He was adopted by Antoninus Pius, Hadrian's chosen successor, and was given political positions under him. To further strengthen Marcus's appointment as the successor of Pius, Marcus married his daughter, Annia Galaria Faustina in 145. Marcus ... . This time he took his son Commodus, who was only sixteen but had already been marked as his father's successor. His plans for the next campaign were to extend the boundaries ...

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The fall of Rome was due to many different factors. These factors included an economic crisis, barbarians, the weak military, lost battles, and political decay. The reason for the economic crisis was that the income was gone. The military couldn't protect the borders so barbarians or raiders started going in Rome and stealing things ... the western part of the empire (the poor Latin people), and Diocletian ruled the eastern (the rich Greek people) part. Diocletian's reforms temporarily stopped the empire's collapse. He secured the boundaries, doubled the army, increased the taxes, stopped in...

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