Revenge of the Fifth! (Or Cinco De Mayo)

                Today in Western Civilization we continued our movie on the life of the general Tiberius Gracchus. Tiberius was continuing his attack on Carthage, and Carthage eventually fell. Tiberius was made a hero, and the Romans demolished and burned down Carthage itself. All of the remaining Carthaginians were made into slaves and brought back to Rome. As Tiberius moved on to start a campaign to take Spain, he sees a woman whose cart is flipped over by his troops and she says that her land was taken from her. Tiberius has his troops fix the cart and care for the people while he visits Octavian’s latifundia. While this conversation goes on, there is the infamous quote “Just grab some land!” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ-d3nHRBh4) and Tiberius learns of the aristocrats stealing land from farmers. Tiberius leaves for Spain early, and engages in combat against the ‘barbarians’. Tiberius’ forces are promptly surrounded, and they are forced to come to a peace treaty with Spain, however Tiberius claims to speak for Rome instead of his commander, as Tiberius is the only one the Spanish leaders will talk to. Tiberius and his troops go back to Rome and face trial (even though the populous thinks of them as heroes) for making an unsanctioned peace treaty with the Spaniards. However, the council relents and Tiberius is released from punishment. Tiberius then decides to run for office as a tribal leader. He succeeds, and the people love him as he causes as much disruption to the general populous as possible as he tries to improve the farmer’s lives.