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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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How did Tiberius Gracchus policies attack the Senate Patrician class?
By his proposal for agrarian reforms that would (among other things) limit the amount of acreage any citizen might posess. This would have been a blow to the the large (often Patrician) landowners, many of whom held seats in the Roman Senate. The resulting conflict with the Senate finally led to Tiberius Gracchus being killed by his political enemies. His land reforms however were finally implemented under popular pressure.
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Did Nathanael Greene have any siblings?
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Why were Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus killed?
Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, Emperor of Rome, was killed because he was a bloodthirsty tyrant, a serial sadistic pedophile, and had ordered the execution of several high ranking and popular Roman citizens. Gaius Gracchus was killed by the Roman Senate because of a series of reforms he instituted that cost several wealthy families money and political power, which led to a minor civil war. He also claimed to be morally superior to all of his contemporaries, calling himself the "most virtuous man in Rome."
