HE WANTS TO BE KING!

Farmer who fought in war lost their farms when they returned home, and were reduced to the lowest "proletarian" citizen status.

• Proletarian - Property-less  citizens who can still vote

War profiteers abandoned and traded in slaves, weapons, and bought abandoned farms and plantations

• Buy ruined farms
• Small plots were merged into large estates for use of vineyards and olive groves
• In 150 BC slaves made up a third of the population in Italy

In second century BC the Gracchi brothers attempted to carve out special rights for the poor

The Plan

• Resettle many of the city's poor on small farms
• Provide a public subsidy of grain (welfare) for those who remained in Rome
• This would raise the number of independent self sufficient farmers (shortens the gap between the poor and rich) 

Gaius 

• Brother of Tiberius (8 years younger)ack would get paid i
• His head was cut off, whoever brought his head back will get paid the amount the head weighs in gold.