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The civil wars began when Tiberius Gracchus attempted to bring in reforms to restore the position of the small property-owners who also constituted the bulk of the army. They were disadvantaged as a result of the Punic Wars which kept them from their farms and enabled large landowners to absorb the common land on which they relied to graze their plough oxen. He was assassinated, and his brother Gaius Gracchus who took over the cause was similarly murdered.

The Germanic invasions whichh followed needed vastly increased military manpowe, which brought the non-propertied class into the army. When their service was terminated, unlike the small-farmers, they had no livelihood to return to; they relied on their generals to look after them, and these generals, instead of discharging them, kept them on to back their claims to preeminence in the Republic.

Thus the normal system of annual office of leaders was subverted by leaders forming cartels to gain and hold power. These came into conflict with opposing cartels, and political conflicts moved into the sphere of military-backed conflicts - open civil war.

Various solutions introduced by Sulla and Caesar failed, and it was not resolved until Octavian Caesar's settlement when he got himself allocted the frontier provinces, which of course had all the legions. This kept the military option out of the hands of the opportunists.

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