Message from @Daddy
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muh senate
no
most people gained land after serving in the military
you just needed to not be a degenerate to join the military
it was, you had entire Patrician families that were impoverished and forced to live in apartments in the city center
and which lost all of their land to other wealthy aristocrats
source
sounds like bullshit
muh balls
do your own research
lmao
ask for source
"do your own research"
so basically you have no source
and most of the people in the army wouldn't get the land because there was no land to be given
which is why they had to conquer foreign countries in the first place
to give them that land
there was steady expansion during the republic
yes, which was supported by the POPULARES
and the Optimates were largely isolationist
lmao
that's right
btfo poputard
Cato the Elder
exactly
um... Cato the Elder lived before the Gracchus brothers did
That philosophy was conservative
expanding
the cold war syndrome boomer was dead before the Populares were even a thing
it started with Cato the elder, but it entered optimates thought
through the younger, the problem was internal conflicts created by rabble stymie expansion
Cato the Elder was more in favor of wiping out Carthage than colonizing it
the only reason he wanted the Third Punic War was cause he thought Carthage was a threat to Rome
there was a desire to conquer land around the mediterranean
literal Cold War boomer
to create a contiguous trade
area
that's when the term mare nostrum arose
I'm pretty sure Cato never used the term Mare Nostrum
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