The Rise And Fall Of The Roman Republic | Cato the Elder and the Gracchi (Lecture 7)

Lecture 7 - The Challenges of Expansion: Cato the Elder and the Gracchi: The new empire brought wealth, corruption, and foreign influence to Rome and increased the tensions between the populares and optimates. The attempts by Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus to meet these challenges and preserve the character of Rome ended in political violence that threatened the Republic.

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