Gracchan+land+reforms+(attempted)

Gracchan land Reforms

133-120 BC many peasants were being pushed off their own farms by rich landowners. Tiberius Gracchus, tribune attempted to limit the amount of land that rich owners can have and redistrubute the land to the poorer farmers. Eventually he was clubbed to death with a stool. His brother gaius became Tribune later on and tried to enact the same reforms ten years later. Was more sucessful than his brother, however he was eventually overthown and commited suicide.