Rome Video cont.

Today in West. Civ. class we continued watching the video on Rome that we have been watching for the past couple days. It has been pretty interesting so far. It starts off by Tibiris eating and drinking a few drinks with Octavious. Octavious is the person who has taken the old womens land that was complaining(Latifundia land). There were thousands of farmers that had to leave their land because rich land owners were buying them. Tibiris fought the Newmantides from Spain who his father had fought 40 years before. Maximus was a commander whose only option was to have a peace treaty with the barbarians that are surrounding them. They said they wanted to have Tibiris negotiate with them and hand him the lives of 20,000 Roman soldiers lives to his "junior officer" rank. When Tibiris returned home he was greeted and praised by the soldiers family that he had brought home safely. Then he had to go to the Senate with Maximus and Tibiris. He was not convicted  but the officer Maximus was the one they blamed and had to be stripped naked and sent to the land of the Newmantides. He was told to be a tribune. To stand for the people that he had saved their lives. He got married to Claudia to form an alliance. Tibiris using his veto power he brought the entire government to a stand still.