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He was killed after proposing reorganize control of the "ager publicus" i.e. public land - which was defined as land conquered in previous wars that was controlled by the state.
The existing agrarian law supposedly limited citizens to possess no more than 500 jugera (approximately 125 hectares) of the ager publicus and any land that they occupied above this limit was supposed to be confiscated by the state, but rich landowners pretty much ignored the law and used all sorts of tricks to accumulate much of the land, impoverishing much of the population of Free Roman citizens.
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