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Why did so many farmers sink into debt or lose their land in the latter years of the roman republic?

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The small scale farmers were taken away from their land and couldn't make any profit
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The small-scale farmers who made up the bulk of the army were taken away from their land and their livestock by military campaigns for so long that their farmed failed
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