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Newly conquered territory that could have been distributed broadly, especially to the poor, but was captured by the rich in Jiang's account.
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common land
Newly conquered territory that could have been distributed broadly, especially to the poor, but was captured by the rich in Jiang's account.
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The post-Hannibal settlement broke the sacrificial mythology because the rich, controlling the republican government, took most of the conquered common land while the poor received little.
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The Gracchi brothers proposed land reform in which Rome would buy rich occupants out of illegally held common land and redistribute it to the poor for subsistence and food security.
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"...very little. Okay? So an example here is the idea of common land. Common land is, what do you do with the new territory..."
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"...does not feed Rome. Most of this land, which is again, common land, the rich are occupying it illegally, is not being used productively...."
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"Does that make sense? The rich won't be kicked out of the land they're illegally occupying. They'll be compensated for it. Okay? So this..."
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"But not only that, the remaining common land, the rich just pretended it was theirs. Okay? Meaning that they illegally occupied common land. They..."
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