A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . by extensive grounds and beautiful gardens. Thewomen indulged in lavish display, and plunged into gaietiesinconsistent with household virtues. Slaves multiplied, andthe race of farmers dwindled. The seeds of demoralizationand decay were planted. 146 EOME Numantian War. — Such being the condition of things athome, it often happened that the oppression of the coloniesprovoked resistance. Many of the peoples of Spain carried ona vigorous and prolonged contest with the Romans, in whichmany marked successes were gained by the pa
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . by extensive grounds and beautiful gardens. Thewomen indulged in lavish display, and plunged into gaietiesinconsistent with household virtues. Slaves multiplied, andthe race of farmers dwindled. The seeds of demoralizationand decay were planted. 146 EOME Numantian War. — Such being the condition of things athome, it often happened that the oppression of the coloniesprovoked resistance. Many of the peoples of Spain carried ona vigorous and prolonged contest with the Romans, in whichmany marked successes were gained by the patriots. It wasin 133 that Scipio Africanus Aemilianus captured the impor-tant city of ISTumantia, which brought the war to an end. Pergamon. — In the East the Romans found greater subserv-ience. Attalus III., King of Pergamon, an ally of Rome, lefthis kingdom and treasures, by will, to the Roman detached Phrygia Major and gave it to Mithridates IV.,King of Pontus, who had helped them to subdue the feebleopposition of the disappointed heir of Roman Laeder{Fresco at Herculanewni) PEEIOD IV. —THE EEA OF EEVOLUTION AND OP THECIVIL WAES (146-31 ) CHAPTER XXV THE GRACCHI; THE FIRST MITHRIDATIC WAR; MARIUSAND SULLA (146-78 ) Condition of Rome. — The Licinian Laws (p. 127) liad pro-vided for a system of internal economy designed to improvethe condition of the poor and to limit the power of the they been carried out, the situation would not have beenwhat it actually was. Their adoption was followed by an eraof internal strife. The power of the Senate was more andmore exalted. The chief officers were drawn from a smallcircle of rich families, and the gulf between the poor and therich was constantly widening. Slaves furnished labor at thecost of bare subsistence, and it was hard for a poor man toearn a living. Tiberius Gracchus. — Tiberius Gracchus, the son of Cornelia,who was the daughter of the great Scipio Africanus, proposedto limit the
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