HISB11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Teutons, Jugurtha, Cimbri
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Lecture 5 the late republic i (late 2nd to early 1st century bce) 5th 1st century bce: republic (res publica) Collegial power = against monarchy: voting assemblies, magistracies, senate, powers to the elite. 4th century bce: formative period, wars in italy: magistracies, end of the struggle of the order, new mixed elite. Massive influx of people (people who were enslaved: many come back from fighting to find their land taken, peasants replaced in the fields and countryside by slaves. All these together make for a new socio-economic order. All these together lead to an autarky based to an exchange based economy. Towards a certain specialty: olive tree (oil, grape vine (wine, transhumance. Problems: a few with most of the land, a lot without land, a lot of men without land, a lot of uncultivated land. Conquests: few very wealthy, many poor (land, citizenship)
