Roman Republic Research Paper

The Downfall of The Roman Republic

Many believe the downfall of Rome was due to its cruel, tireless leaders who put themselves before their country. While those leaders certainly played a role in destroying Rome, Rome already had many structural weaknesses before those leaders ever came along. The main structural weakness of the Roman Republic was in their core values - their odd idealistics. The Romans valued the trait of ambition a lot, and also had a sense of superiority compared to non-Romans. Due to their pre-installed arrogance, there were many people who rose up to power and essentially massacred tons of other people from different cities with no remorse. Eventually, the leaders of Rome turned on their own and, to not break the sanctity …show more content…
Tiberius had the support of the public- plebians, and Octavius had the support of the nobles, but when Octavius refused to come to an agreement with Tiberius he stripped Octavius of his power as a tribune, in turn bending the ways of the Republic. The Roman senate hated Tiberius because him giving more land to the plebs stripped them of their own ambition for more land, but also because he directly opposed the senate and offended them as well. Tiberius in his rule bending revealed that it was possible to defy the laws of Rome. Due to his offenses against the senate, they were able to use his unintentional revealing of Rome's weakness against him and killed him. While Tiberius helped the Roman plebians, helping the economy in the process, he showed just how easy it was to manipulate the Roman laws, making Rome more vulnerable from inside and outside threats in the process. The other man who revealed a weakness in Rome is Sulla. Sulla was a powerful ruler and became dictator of Rome, calling himself something other than that so people wouldn't get worried. He destroyed the power of tribunes, making it so that they couldn't be consuls and had to get the senates permission before making a law- removing a

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