Today in class we finished watching the rest of the movie about Tiberius and ancient Rome. The rest of it was about pretty much one single topic. This was, once Tiberius made a trus with the Spaniards, his city senate was very upset and mad at him. They decided to not punish him though, but to punish the general who commanded him to talk with the Spaniards.
After that, Tiberius was very mad at Octavius for stealing poor peoples land. He decided to be a tribune and give the people their fair share of money that the Senate took from them, and give it back to the people. Eventually, after fighting with a lot of the other tribunes, he passed that law and all of the poor people supported him.
But it gets better... once he passed the law, Octavius and the Senate became very angry with him. They decided to start telling the people that he was running just to be the king, which is a very bad thing to try and elect yourself as king. They made the people so mad and the people began to stop supporting him. Eventually it got so bad that he was beaten to death and that was the end.
Overall it was a good video and I enjoyed learning about what happened with Tiberius.
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