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Gracchus, by the aid of the proletarians and the mercantile class, then proceeded to the overthrow the gracci of the ruling aristocracy, The fall of the Gracchi restored Rome to the rule of the oligarchy.
The government of the Senate was resumed, and a war of prosecution was carried on against the followers of Gracchus.
While public affairs were thus disgracefully managed, a war broke out between Numidia and Rome. That African kingdom extended from the river Molochath to the great Syrtis on the one hand, and to Cyrene and Egypt on the other, and included the greatest part of the ancient Carthaginian territories. Numidia, next to Egypt, [pg 500]was the most important of the Roman client States. On the fall of Carthage
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