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Post-Punic Wars Rome
Tim Nonet
Over View
• Extremely brief review of Punic Wars
• Changes in Rome
– Political
– Social
– Military
– Economic
– Geographic
• Gracchi Brothers
First Punic War
Cause: Carthage and Rome both wanted to
expand but were blocked by each other.
First War:
Carthage and Rome face of in combat
Rome is victorious
Carthage signs Treaty declaring Rome
Victorious
Second Punic War
Cause: Carthage and Rome both wanted to
expand but were blocked by each other.
Same as last war
Second War:
Carthage and Rome face of in combat
Hannibal marches for Rome
Rome goes on offensive
Hannibal returns to Carthage to protect
Rome is Victorious
Third Punic War
Cause: Carthage and Rome both wanted to expand but
were blocked by each other. Same as last war.
Second War:
Carthage and Rome face of in combat
Rome goes on offensive for the final time
Rome seizes the city of Carthage
Rome is Victorious
Carthage signs treaty giving all land to Rome.
Rome after Wars
Political Changes
• Senate gains influence
• Comitias Plebus (commoners
representatives) lose influence
• After Gracchi brothers Senate loses
power
• Corruption increases and leads to fall of
Roman Republic and rise of the Empire
Social Changes
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Cities grow as people leave rural areas
Number of slaves increase
Increase in goods as Rome expands
Social unrest from peasants in cities
and lack of jobs
Economic Changes
• Farm land becomes cheaper as peasants
sell land to move to cities
• Increase in large estate and farms as rich
Romans buy land and use slave labor
• Slaves become far cheaper
• Goods from east move into the economy
Geographic Changes
• Rome gains control of all of Carthage
Land’s
• Rome becomes super power of the
Mediterranean
• Rome continues to expand
Gracchi Brothers
• Tiberius and Gaius Gracchi
• Tribunes of Plebeians
• Fought for decrease in Senate influence
and land reform
Tiberius
• Sought agrarian reform for peasants
• Senate opposed reforms because most
members gained money from farms
• Tiberius sought a second term which
was illegal and was beaten to death by
a chair
Gaius
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Younger brother of Tiberius
Continued agrarian reform
Set a limit age on conscription to 17
Senate orders death of Gaius
Commits suicide
Review
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Rome is expanding
Dominate force in Mediterranean
Social unrest
Changes in demographics
Corruption in government
Leads to fall of republic
Bibliography
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http://www.unrv.com/empire/gracchi-brothers.php.
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April 28, 2013. http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/rome07.htm.
5."The Romans." The Classics Pages: Antony Kamm's '': 2.5 The Punic Wars.
Accessed April 28, 2013. http://www.the-romans.co.uk/punic.htm.
6."Summary of the Punic Wars." The Finer Times: War, Crime and History
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