Examples of Gracchi Brothers in the following topics:
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- About nine years later, Tiberius Gracchus's younger brother, Gaius, passed more radical reforms in favor of the poorer plebeians.
- The deaths of the Gracchi brothers marked the beginning of a late Republic trend in which tensions and conflicts erupted in violence.
- The next major reformer of the time was Gaius Marius, who like the Gracchi, was a populist who championed the lower classes.
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- However, the
next few years were spent in a bitter civil war between the brothers.
- Yarsolav was vying for the seat in Kiev against his brother
Sviatopolk I, who was supported by Duke Boleslaw I of Chrobry.
- In the
ensuing years of carnage, three of his brothers were murdered (Boris,
Gleb, and Svyatoslav).
- Another
fraternal conflict arose in 1024 when another brother of Yaroslav's,
Mstislav of Chernigov, attempted to capture Kiev.
- After this conflict, the brothers split the Kievan Rus' holdings, with Mstislav ruling
over the region left of the Dnieper River.
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- Foremost
among these was the Inca Civil War, which is also known as the War
of Succession or the War of Two Brothers.
- Brothers Huascar and Atahualpa, two sons of the emperor Huayna Capac, both wanted to rule after their father's death.
- Between 1529 and 1532 the two
brothers' armies waged warfare, with one or the other gaining a
stronger foothold for a time.
- By
1532, Atahualpa had overpowered his brother's forces via intrigue,
and merciless violence, scaring many local populations from standing up to his
power.
- After Atahualpa's demise and the
Spanish seized control, they placed Atahualpa's brother, Manco Inca
Yupanqui, in charge of Cusco as a puppet ruler while they tried to
rein in the north.
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- He ascended to the
position of Prince of Novgorod around 969 while his oldest brother,
Yaropolk, became the designated heir to the throne in Kiev.
- Vladimir was forced to flee to Scandinavia in 976 after
Yaropolk murdered their brother Oleg and violently took control of
Rus'.
- He also
slew his brother Yaropolk in Kiev in the name of treason and, in
turn, became the ruler of all of Kievan Rus'.
- In order to
marry her he was baptized in the Orthodox faith with the name Basil,
a nod to his future brother-in-law.
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- Peter the Great of the House of Romanov (1672 – 1725) ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 1682 until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his elder half-brother, Ivan V.
- In 1676, Tsar Alexis died, leaving the sovereignty to Peter's elder half-brother, Feodor III.
- Peter's other half-brother, Ivan V, was next in line for the throne, but he was chronically ill.
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- His
meritocratic policies tended to gain a broader range of followers,
compared to his rival brother, Jamukha, who also hoped to rule over greater swaths of Mongolian territory.
- This split in policies created conflict with his uncles and brothers, who were
also legitimate heirs to Mongol succession, as well as his generals.
- Appointing his
adopted brother as supreme judge, ordering him to keep detailed records of the
empire.
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- At the death of
Feodor Ivanovich, the last Rurikid Tsar, in 1598, his brother-in-law and trusted advisor,
Boris Godunov, was elected his successor by the Zemsky Sobor (Great
National Assembly).
- Feodor Ivanovich’s younger brother was
reportedly stabbed to death before the Tsar’s death, but some
people still believed he had fled and was alive.
- The first of the
nicknamed False Dmitris appeared in the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth in 1603 claiming he was the lost young brother of Ivan the Terrible.
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- Succeeding his father as the Mayor of the Palace in 741, Pepin reigned over Francia jointly with his elder brother Carloman.
- Pepin ruled in Neustria, Burgundy, and Provence, while his brother Carloman established himself in Austrasia, Alemannia and Thuringia.
- The brothers were active in subjugating revolts led by the Bavarians, Aquitanians, Saxons, and the Alemanni in the early years of their reign.
- He suppressed a revolt led by his half-brother Grifo, and succeeded in becoming the undisputed master of all Francia.
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- Möngke's brother, Hulagu, ruled over this region and his descendants continued to oversee this khanate into the 14th century.
- The ruler's death sparked the four-year Toluid Civil War between his two younger brothers, Kublai and Ariq Böke, and also spurred on the division of the Mongol Empire.
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- According
to legend, at the call of the local tribal leaders Rurik, along with his
brothers Truvor and Sineus, founded the Holmgard settlement in Ladoga.
- The founding of Holmgard signaled a new era in Russian history and
the three brothers became the famous founders of the first Rus'
ruling dynasty.