The Fall of The Roman Republic The Ancient Roman Republics downfall can be linked to the corruption of the government. Conflicts of the government powers lead the government to become inefficient thusly leading to its fall. The Roman Constitution was unwritten; it was more of a collection of oral traditions and laws that was passed down, and over time parts became vague and undefined. Being that they weren’t written down lead to conflicts of interpretation and obstruction of the traditions…
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Carlos Campbell Fall of the Roman Republic After Rome’s conquest of the central Mediterranean from 387 BCE to 146 BCE there republic slowly fell due to many factors from these conquest including spoils of war, increase of population the militarization of politics, and the lack of a written constitution. Rome went into a number of wars against the trading city of Carthage from 264 BCE to 146 BCE. During this time Rome suffered a number of losses during this time but unless you take…
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Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey or Pompey the Great, was a military leader and politician of the fall of the Roman Republic. He was born in 106BC into a family of moderate distinction in Picenum, Northern Italy. His father was one of the most successful and independent Roman generals in the war and was the first to establish their family in Roman nobility. Pompey had immense success as a general when he was still very young, which allowed him to advance directly to his first consulship…
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the eventual fall of the Roman republic— too many individuals working for different goals one way or another chipped away at the system until it was able to be overcome, and then fundamentally altered. However, there are a few key moments that, had they happened differently, could possibly have staved off the evolution of Rome from a republic into an Empire for a little while longer. By the proverbial “for want of a nail” logic, a historical moment that would have saved the republic is if Scipio…
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The Roman republican structure was established with holding two monarchical elements on top of the government pyramid – two consuls who lead for elected period of one year, on an occasion they would elect a dictator who received a sole power and almost tyrannical rights for the period of his election. The First Triumvirate was an unofficial contract between two of the consuls and one official: Pompey, Grassus and Caesar, who decided that the existing stage of government system is over corrupt and…
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Julius Caesar the main catalyst for the Fall of the Roman Republic? The Fall of the Roman Republic, was majorly influenced by a large spectacle of events, specifically including the assassination of Julius Caesar. These events encompass a time of immense importance in the history of Rome, the end of a dictatorship and the victory of Octavian at Actium. This period therefore witnessed a fall of the aristocratic Republic, replaced with what is known to be the Roman Empire, although the empire is in fact…
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United State of America is heading to the same fate as the Roman. First, the election spend were expensive at the Roman Replulic election and it was one of the reason that they fall. Today the American election is costing too much money which is just smiliar to the same thing the Romans politican went through. Second, one of the fastest way at the Roman Republic to get rich is to hold a public office. In contrast to the American Republic politican these days start their election poor and they end…
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The Fall of the Roman Republic There are many events that led up to the fall of the Roman Republic such as when Julius Caesar was appointed “dictator for life” in 44 B.C. The Battle of Actium that took place at 31 B.C. And the thing that really transitioned the Roman Republic into becoming the Roman empire again was when Octavian (also name Augustus) was granted power from the senate at 27 B.C. All these events ended up transitioning the Roman political system from becoming a Republic into a…
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in the Roman Senate until he gave up on politics and returned to writing history. He wrote The Conspiracy of Catiline to describe the specific causes that led to the rise of the Roman Republic and the causes that led to its demise. The text contains descriptions about how the city of Rome was founded, as well as its rise to power and expansion through conquest, which eventually brought about the conditions that eventually poisoned the Republic. There are some causes that the rise and fall of the…
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Roman Republic As one of the first republics and influencing empires, the Roman Republic is one that is commonly shunned due to the fame of the latter Roman Empire. The Roman Republic (509 BC – 27 BC) was mainly centered with the city of Rome.2 Future expansion gave the republic control of the complete Italy territory, the entire Mediterranean, North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, Greece, France, and much of the East.1 The Roman Republic came to a rise when the Roman people fought and gained their…
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