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    Why this, and why now?

    I stood in the Forum, lost.

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    Caesar. Not much else.

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    Stories first.

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The fall of the Roman Republic
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The Fall of the Roman Republic

5 parts·20 min a day

  1. 1The Gracchi: two brothers and a land law
  2. 2Marius opens the ranks
  3. 3Sulla marches on Rome
  4. 4Pompey, Crassus and Caesar
  5. 5The Ides of March, as Cicero saw it
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Part 3 · Sulla

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Part 2 · section 2 of 3

Marius opens the ranks

In 107 BC Rome ran short of soldiers.

Gaius Marius took the poor and trained them. From then on, a soldier's pay, and the land he hoped for, depended on his general.

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Picture a soldier in 100 BC: no land, no trade. Marius gives him pay and training. From then on, his pay, and the land he hoped for, depended on his general.

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Why would a landless soldier care who his general was?

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“depended on his general”

Whoever pays an army can lead it anywhere. Even against Rome.

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  1. 1Rome runs short of soldiers
  2. 2Marius opens the ranks
  3. 3Whose army?
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Who could join Marius's army?

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Why follow him, not Rome?

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You're his soldier. He marches on Rome. Do you follow?

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Why did his soldiers follow him, not Rome?

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Their pay came from him. So did their loyalty.

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