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Rome - The World's First SuperpowerLarry looks at how during the mid-second century BC, Rome enjoyed the spoils of war - with a bounty of slaves, treasure and art coming into it's republic. But not everyone reaped the benefits, with a ever-widening gap between the poor and the privileged. He looks at the history of Tiberius Gracchus, a man from Rome's elite ruling classes who began championing the rights of the common citizen farmer.Restart available0Rome - The World's First SuperpowerLarry uses Caesar's memoirs as a guide to follow the extraordinary journey he made from a bankrupt junior public official to the general who conquered Gaul, through to his assassination. He looks at the history of the man, right back from his humble beginnings on the Channel Island of Jersey, which once was the Northern Edge of the Roman world. Larry then heads to Alesia, in Central France to look at Caesar's most decisive military victory.