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The Gracchus brothers were two Roman reformers. They wanted to fix problems without going through the Senate.

Tiberius became a tribune, so he could appeal directly to the people. He wanted to limit the amount of land people could own, and he proposed that the Senate should give public land to the poor. Senators beat him to death with chairs they were sitting on.

Gaius, his brother, continued on with Tiberius' ideas once Tiberius was dead, but was eventually forced to commit suicide to maintain his honor (before he was beaten to death with chairs, too.)

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Tiberius was murded first. Then 12 years later, Gaius met the same fate.

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