Practice question · Put in order
Order the Republic’s self-destruction.
- Marius enrolls the landless poor into the legions
- Actium: the last rival falls, and the winner becomes Augustus
- Tiberius Gracchus is murdered; political violence returns
- Sulla marches his legions on Rome and posts death lists
- Caesar crosses the Rubicon with a loyal army
- Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus run politics as a private syndicate
Hints
- Political murder comes before the military reform.
- Once armies became personal, the rest follows arithmetically.
Show the answer
- Tiberius Gracchus is murdered; political violence returns
- Marius enrolls the landless poor into the legions
- Sulla marches his legions on Rome and posts death lists
- Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus run politics as a private syndicate
- Caesar crosses the Rubicon with a loyal army
- Actium: the last rival falls, and the winner becomes Augustus
Why
Note the causal chain: the murder makes violence thinkable, the reform makes armies private, and everything after is arithmetic, whoever commands the most loyal legions wins the state.
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