Tiberius Gracchus

What magistracy did Tiberius hold?

• consul

• dictator

• tribune

• praetor

What law did Tiberius try to revive?

• distribution of corn at subsidised rate

• one individual only permitted to hold 500 acres of public land

• public land to be redistributed for colonies

• transferral of law courts from senate to the equites

Which of these was NOT an influence on Tiberius?

• competition with Octavius

• pressure from his mother to live up to his ancestors

• influence of Greek philosophy

• failed Numantine war in Spain where Tiberius' terms were rejected by the Senate

• a trip through Etruria where he saw large farms worked entirely by slaves

Which of these might lead us to doubt whether there was a land-crisis in the 2nd c. BC?

• Rome had fought foreign wars for centuries, so this wasn't new

• there is no archaeological evidence for large slave-worked farms across Italy

• census figures show that the population was actually rising

• there is archaeological evidence that small farmsteads persisted across Italy

• declining census figures may simply have been because people were reluctant to register

What did Tiberius do which alienated his previous senatorial support?

• redistributed land to the pooe

• deposed his co-tribune Octavius because he wasn't representing the people

• tried to run for a second office as tribune

• vetoed the opening of the markets and temples, shutting down all business and trade

• bypassed the senate in allocating the money from the Pergamene kingdom to fund his new law

Why was Tiberius' tribunate so important?

• it showed that custom trumped legality

• the abuses that Tiberius was trying to combat had reached a critical point

• it introduced direct mass violence into daily politics in Rome

• it highlighted the senate's/Rome's refusal to share power

When did Tiberius try to enact his reforms?

• 143

• 133

• 132

• 123

What shows that the senate weren't utterly opposed to Tiberius' land-redistribution law?

• he had powerful senatorial supporters

• none of the other tribunes vetoed his law

• the senate allowed Tiberius' agrarian law to be enacted after his death

• they massacred many of his supporters