Welcoming New Church Members Letters

access to the plateau (IV)

Then came the 179 Tiberius Gracchus to take charge of the prefecture of Citerior Hispania took office with a military offensive in which the two armies coordinated operations. Albino Praetor of the Further, walked toward the territory of the vacceos. Graco, meanwhile, after submitting some cities of the Further, entered Carpetania Oretania and occupying the town of Elk, about 20 km from Toledo, whose leader, Thurr, spent in the service of the Romans. In the region reached Caravis Tajo, allied city of Rome, which waged the siege of which was submitted by the Celts. In Moncayo campaigns ran into an army that defeated the Celts and Livy tells us that victory ended the war. Graco
to celebrate his victories, he founded the city of Graccurris, current Alfaro, in the year 178. Do not think that this foundation responded to the vanity of a successful military: she tried to secure the borders between the territories controlled Rome and the peoples Basques. At the same time had the opportunity to implement one of its most intelligent initiatives. Known
are social problems that undermined the precarious health of the peoples of the Iberian Peninsula, especially the Celts, the vetones and Lusitanian. The concentration of land ownership in the hands of a few landowners forced large segments of the population to be maintained by a kind of life that could qualify as "banditry." The fertile lands of the Guadalquivir, Ebro and fringe Levantine plundered by those groups of bandits deprived and hungry. Rome
Once the richest territories occupied of the Peninsula, hardened resistance to the incursions of those semi-nomadic thieves. But the solution of the problem was not in force. It was necessary to give these people the land they needed, which, on the one hand satisfy their most basic demands and, secondly, they do sedentary. This was the objective set out to achieve with Graco Foundation Graccurris: the Celts were given plots of land. Consequently, it was possible peace: a multitude of tribes and cities signed treaties of friendship and alliance with Rome in exchange for the payment of a reasonable taxation and military service. It also acquired the commitment not to wall off their cities had Roman acculturation started of the Iberian Peninsula. The Romans gave the contracting cities the right to coin money, law amounted in fact to an obligation which in turn made it easier for tax collection Rome and out of precious metals. Among the allied cities highlighted Segóbriga (Saelices), the most important Cetiberia (which shall speak in the future), which negotiated with Roma full equality.