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• War profiteers abounded and traded in slaves, weapons, and often bought abandoned farms to create large plantations.

• "Just grab some land!"

• Turned big estates into HUGE estates.
• Soldiers and farmers who fought in Rome's wars often lost their land and came back to nothing.

• Used their wealth to buy ruined farms.
• Small plots were merged into large estates for use as vineyards, olive groves, or pastureland for livestock.
• Displaces farmers could not compete with the slaves. (Carthage)

• Plebeians make up the assembly.

• Tiberius tried to do a lot of good things so they would vote him as the king of Rome.
• Senate sees him as a trouble maker already, because he is in direct contact with their interest.
• Septimulieus found Gaius' head and then scooped the brains out and filled it with lead so they threw Tiberius' head in the River Tiber.

• Julius Caesar wants to extend his power and ambition.

• Pompey is jealous, and the senate is worried.
• Instead, he and his army cross the Rubicon and make a grand, heroic entrance.
• Pompey is defeated in Greece, and is killed in Egypt where he has taken refuge.