Tiberius movie+Gracchi notes

In today’s class we finished the movie on Tiberius Gracchus and Mr. Schick called a few people a pig-dog in German “schwine-hund” and in Chinese. Anyway, today’s portion of the movie, we saw the death of Tiberius Gracchus. He died because after his one year term as tribune, he tried to run for a re-election which was illegal because in Rome, you could only run for a political office again after ten years. On top of that, people like Octavius, tried to lie to the people to get them to believe that Tiberius was actually trying to declare himself king. This was most likely false information, however, he may have been getting a little power hungry, but he probably did not want to be king. We then got to taking notes on the overthrow of the republic. This discussion included the second half of the song, from “I can hear the brothers Gracchus…” to “Pax Romana is the word that brings the cheers…” After the notes, we were then given our next assignment, a research paper.  This paper, which is on Pax Romana, actually only needs to be 500 words, so it’s not like we are writing a term paper or anything.