Voices From the Past With Growing Inequality and Unrest.

By 133 B.C., Rome stood supreme  over the Mediterranean Sea, but problems arose in Rome itself.

But when our courtry had grown great through toil, when great kings (how did the romans learn about title of kings?), had been vanquished in war, when Carthage, the rival of Rome's sway, had perished root and branch, then Fortune began to grow cruel... Hence the lust for power first,then for money, grew upon them; these were I may say, the root of all evils. For greed destroyed honor, integerity and all other noble qualities. Ambition drove many men to become false; to one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue; to value friendships and enemies not on their merits but by the standard of self-interest. {National Geography page 156}   GROWING INEQUALITY AND UNREST.