Question

What is one of the reasons that poverty increased toward the end of the Roman Republic?

Citizens of Rome lost their land after many years of drought.

Men who fought in wars could not take care of their farms and often lost their land. The plebeians became powerful but could not govern well.

There was no authority in place to stop soldiers from robbing wealthy Romans.

The Roman Republic lost the territories from which it received most of its taxes.

Answer 1

Men who fought in wars could not take care of their farms and often lost their land. The plebeians became powerful but could not govern well.

Step-by-step explanation:

The frequent Civil Wars in the Roman Republican obliged many men in Italy to leave their farms and, hence, most of those farms were lost.

Answer 2

The right answer is The Roman Republic lost the territories from which it received most of its taxes.

The Roman government bailed out bankrupt institutions, pardoned debts, spent huge sums on welfare programs, and incurred large monetary inflation and devaluation of its currency. The corruption of the currency and the subsequent expansion of the money supply provided, in the short term, a relief for the state's finances. In the other hand, it only lasted as long as merchants, legionaries, and market forces realized what was really happening. The Roman government gradually weakened and lost space and land because it could not control them or supply them with their taxes.