
Part Two: How The Roman Republic Became a Police State
Behind the Bastards
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The Proletariat - The Military Leader
Marius is a brilliant military leader. He's good at winning elections and an exercising power in building coalitions. But he's not really a patrician, but he's kind of a rich country guy. So everyone, all the patricians, he's a redneck riht. They hate his ass. Eventually, this leads to a nasty civil war between marius and his old lieutenant sulla. Sulla is like the queerest dude in ancient Rome; very open about it. It wipes out like a generation of ittalian they're both really good, neither of them are polose types. Both actually good at having armies,. They're both actually good at
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