Answer:
Tiberius Gracchus passed a law which provided for the
redistribution of land to poor peasants and the landless poor.
Despite a law which prohibited anyone from owning more than a
certain amount of land, large landowners took advantage of the
misfortunes of many small peasants to buy their land on the cheap.
(found on my schools website)
Explanation:
Answer:
The Gracchi brothers, Tiberius and Gaius, were Romans who
both served as tribunes of the plebs between 133 and 121 BC.
They attempted to redistribute the occupation of the ager
publicus—the public land hitherto controlled principally by
aristocrats—to the urban poor and veterans, in addition to
other social and constitutional reforms. After achieving some
early success, both were assassinated by the Optimates, the
conservative faction in the senate that opposed these reforms.
