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Jiang treats the assassination of the Gracchi as the beginning of the Roman Republic's fall because it reveals a system incapable of internally resolving its contradiction.
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Fall OF THE Republic
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Jiang previews the next lecture as the world Caesar created after his death: the Republic falls and the Roman Empire is born.
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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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"And most historians believe this is the beginning of the fall of the Roman Republic because it tells us that the system is incapable..."
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"Any more questions? Okay. Okay. So next class, we're going to look at the world that Caesar created. Okay? Because after he dies... The..."
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"...foresee a crossing of the Rubicon for the U.S., a fall of the republic and beginning of empire, so to speak? Thank you. Yeah,..."
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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