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Part One: How The Roman Republic Became a Police State

Behind the Bastards

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Do Not Negotiate With Conservative Terrorists

Tiberius gracchus and these other senators stuff, start putting together this legislation that they're going to introduce at the forum. And while they're doing all this, cause the horrible war in spain is raging on, which means they have to raise another army and send it to spain. But at this point, they're kind of having trouble finding soldiers, right? Because nobody has enough money to like, buy weapons. Ah, and so there's this rich politician who's very much against land reform, scipio emilianus, who figures out how to fix this problem. He uses his vast personal wealth to recruit and arm an army of his own. This

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