Here are a few notes on LO3 Notes:
- proletarians, Profiteers, and Slaves
- The Punic wars and then the endless further conquests enourmsly increased the burden of military service on the roman farmer solderer
- Some farmers remained stubbornly on their land, but most gave up, sank to the status of proletarians( property-less but voting citizens)
- When the farmers moved to Rome there they could expect to receive free food an public entertainments at the expense of well to do citizens who thereby won prestige and power.Rome itself with its wealthy rival politicians eager to gain support of these propertyless but voting citizens , was particularly generous with " bread and circuses" and grew to become one of the Mediterraneans's great metropolis citites
- By 150 BC slave smade up nearly one third of the population
- Julies Caesar came from an old patrician family
- was brutally killed by the sentate
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