The first latifundia were added from the spoils of war, Confiscated from farmers returning from the war beginning in the early 2nd century BC. The latifundia were the Roman estates. Only slaves worked the land, not the sturdy Roman farmers who had been in the Republic's army. They produced oil and wine for exportation.
Tiberius and Gaius
Roman plebian nobles
Served as tribunes (elected officials in the Roman republic) in the 2nd century
Attempted to pass a land reform that would redistribute huge pieces of patrician land among the plebeians
Considered the founding fathers of socialism and populism
Both were assassinated for their attempts
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