State Grain Price Controls
Administrative pricing, reserves, and distribution rules to stabilize urban food supply.
Core metadata
- ID: state_grain_price_controls
- Era: Classical
- First known date: -123 (exact)
- Region: Roman Republic / Gaius Gracchus grain law and state granary administration
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
Dependents
- None.
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- The Background to the Grain Law of Gaius Gracchus (Journal of Roman Studies / Cambridge University Press, 1985, review) • Supports: node
Locator: The article states that Gaius Gracchus' first tribunate in 123-122 BCE provided for regular sale of grain to Roman citizens at a fixed price and construction of state granaries. - Ancient Rome - The reform movement of the Gracchi, 133-121 bc (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: node
Locator: Britannica places Gaius Gracchus as tribune in 123 BCE, anchoring the reform context for state grain price controls.
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 2
- Average edge confidence: 72%
- Prerequisite sources: 2
- expert_inference: 2
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
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| Record Keeping (record_keeping) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Record Keeping is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. |
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| Tax Accounting (tax_accounting) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Tax Accounting provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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