Summary of Mike Duncan's The Storm Before the Storm

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#1 Tiberius Gracchus was the son of Scipio Africanus and Cornelia, and he was a great military leader. He was also present at the siege of Carthage, where he watched the city burn.

#2 After the Second Punic War, the Roman Republic was flooded with treasure, which some senators feared would lead to moral degradation. However, this only affected the small group of noble families who controlled the spoils of war.

#3 The rich families that acquired all the land also bought slaves to work their growing estates. The demand for free labor plummeted just as poor Roman families were being pushed off their land. As a result, the poor tenants became peasants forever tied to their landlords unless someone came along and offered them a way out.

#4 The Roman Republic faced a crisis in the second century, as the rich pushed the poor off the land, leaving less citizens able to meet the minimum property requirement to be drafted. The Romans had faced similar crises in the past, and responded by lowering the property requirement to bring more men under arms.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669351269

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Insights on Mike Duncan's The Storm Before the Storm

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Tiberius Gracchus was the son of Scipio Africanus and Cornelia, and he was a great military leader. He was also present at the siege of Carthage, where he watched the city burn.

#2

After the Second Punic War, the Roman Republic was flooded with treasure, which some senators feared would lead to moral degradation. However, this only affected the small group of noble families who controlled the spoils of war.

#3

The rich families that acquired all the land also bought slaves to work their growing estates. The demand for free labor plummeted just as poor Roman families were being pushed off their land. As a result, the poor tenants became peasants forever tied to their landlords unless someone came along and offered them a way out.

#4

The Roman Republic faced a crisis in the second century, as the rich pushed the poor off the land, leaving less citizens able to meet the minimum property requirement to be drafted. The Romans had faced similar crises in the past, and responded by lowering the property requirement to bring more men under arms.

#5

The reformist senators were trying to rebuild the Roman economy by redistributing land from the rich to the poor. They came up with a novel piece of legislation called the Lex Agraria that would allow them to do so.

#6

The Lex Agraria was a law passed by the Roman Senate in 123 BC that sought to redistribute land to the landless. It was designed to help the poor, but it was mostly ignored by the rich, who were able to lease excess land from the state.

#7

The Lex Agraria, which was designed to redistribute land to the farmers who worked on it, was