ARALING PANLIPUNAN

Anne Simonne R. Gayongan

IX Einsteinium
Mrs. Edna Delos Angeles

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of An Empire, episode iv:

Rebellion

Since the young Tiberius assisted his famous father and namesakes funeral
pile, he is destined for even greater fame. Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus first
makes a mark on history winning the golden crown from General Scipio
Aemilianus by being first over the wall at the victorious Battle of Carthage. Back
in Rome, now the "capital of the world", he finds the growing gap between rich
and poor threatening the foundations of the republic. Urged to achieve greatness
through further military exploits, he sets out with reinforcements for the
campaign of General Gaius Hostilius Mancinus against the rebellious Numantine
tribe in Spain but is defeated and forced to negotiate a peace treaty that the
Senate later refuses to ratify.
His actions, while repudiated in the Senate, have made him a hero amongst
the Roman people and his new father-in-law Senator Appius Claudius Pulcher
supports him in a successful campaign to become their Tribune. He snubs the
Senate and takes his proposed land reforms directly to the People's Assembly,
where his old friend Octavius rejects them. He brings the city to a standstill when
he vetoes all other business in response and has Octavius deposed. Octavius and
the Senate spread false rumours that he intends to make himself king and in the
ensuing unrest he is murdered.