Biografía Tiberio Sempronio Graco

Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, (163? BC-133 BC), Roman revolutionary politician and plebeian tribune, was born in the Roman Republic at sometime around 163 BC. He was the son of the two-times Consul Tiberius Gracchus and Cornelia (the daughter of the roman hero, Scipio Africannus) so was linked at the same time to the two most important political branches of the Republic, the conservativeoptimates and the liberal populares.
Childhood
When he was around 10 years old he suffered the loss of his father, who left his mother Cornelia a total of 12 children (of whom only three made it to adulthood) to take care of, although with a huge fortune. Cornelia raised Tiberius and the rest of his siblings as part of the elite of the roman society which meant he received a brilliant education basedon the principles of the Greek philosophers whose thinking had changed the minds of the most progressive part of the Roman high society after the conquest of those territories. A proof of the quality of the education his mother provided him and his family is that the three siblings who made it into adulthood were amongst the most powerful and prominent people of the time.
Military life andfounding of his political views.
As was normal amongst the prominent families of the time, Tiberius started climbing the cursus honorum in the military, under the command of his cousin and brother-in-law Scipio Emmilianus during the siege of Carthage. This gave him first hand learning from the most powerful man of the moment. At the same time, he proved his courage in many actions like being the firstroman soldier to climb past the walls of the city.
When the campaign ended with the destruction of the main rival city Rome had ever faced, Tiberius was sent as a questor of the consul Mancinus to serve in the wars in the Hispanic territories. Here he had many opportunities to prove his worth as well as developing a bond with the lower classes of the roman society. His most notorious moment waswhen in defiance with the roman tradition (a thing he took as a habit in further years of his life) he signed a peace treaty with the Numantines, who had surrounded the roman army and could decimate it at please. This action gave him much popularity amongst the working class because of all the lives he had saved, but at the same time alerted the conservative part of the senate about the unbreakablewill Tiberius possessed and the strength of his personal values. Eventually, the Senate revoked the peace treaty and sent Mancinus to a certain death. This outcome distanced Tiberius from Emmilianus and the optimates and make him near to the populares.
However, this setback did not hinder Tiberius political intentions, for during the war he had seen the huge problem the roman republic would haveto inevitably face. The small farmers across Italy (who were the ones sustaining the roman military effort as the army was not professional, and people without land could not serve as soldiers) were vastly diminishing their number and the ones who were quickly impoverishing, being the main cause of this the rise of large and illegal latifundiums of slaver work who were owned by the upper classes.Tribune, political career and murder.
For this problem, Tiberius had a simple solution which was establishing a maximum size for the farms (a big one so not to over anger the powerful landlords) and divide the public land into small farms which would be given to poor farmers without a land to cultivate. This measure is almost a picture of what constituted Tiberius´s character; on one handhe was vehement and had a strong sense of justice and ever stronger set of values for there was no way to stop him from passing the bill but at the same time as Plutarch recalls, he was a reasonable man and gentle man as well as simple and plain as shows his not total ambition of striping all the land from the powerful.
To ensure this happened, he became a Tribune in 133 bc. Tribunes were...