...The Roman Republic was the phase of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a republican form of government. It began with the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, c. 509 BC, and lasted over 450 years until its subversion, through a series of civil wars, into the Principate form of government and the Imperial period. Read full entry
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Roman Republic?
I am studying for my midterm
in my western civilization
class. In order to study, im
essentially taking the test by
writing out who, what, when,
where,how and why the term is
importent to history in a
short paragraph like the test.
If you could please look over
what I have written and see if
there is anything i have
missed, just keep into account
that i have 20 of these that i
have to study for the test.
Thank you.
The Roman Republic:
The Roman Republic was a
period of Roman history from
the 6th to 1st century BCE. It
was a period where the primary
form of government was a
Republic ruled by the senate.
This period contained the
beginnings of Roman expansion
and the Punic Wars both of
which were vital to the
formation of the Empire
period.
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Don't forget the two consuls. You could also mention the conqeust of Greece that happened in the republican period. |
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what caused the collapse of What caused the collapse of
the Roman Republic and the
Roman Empire?
Also, what were the effects of
the collapse of the Roman
Republic and the Roman Empire?
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www.roman-empire.net. has a great history on Rome & the collapse.Here is a direct quote from the site just to give you an idea. "At Constantine's death in Nicomedia in AD 337, 3 sons & 2 of his nephews were destined by the late emperor to succeed him. Though 2 of those sons were absent from Nicomedia. With the consent of the third, Constantius, the other members of the imperial family, except two young cousins were slaughtered by the soldiery. The empire was thereafter by agreement parted between the 3 sons." It goes on quite a bit and very informative. |
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How and why did the Roman why did the Roman republic
fall and the empire begin?
can someone just give me info
on the whole thing?
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It's a question a lot complicated and strictly related with the political events of the period. In the 30 BC Octavian entered in Alexandria, while M. Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide. Octavian was exiting from the war with exceptional powers and reputation, to which he had to give a legal appearance, in order to create the constitutional presuppositions for the use of this power. That means keeping the institutional republican schema for which formally he fought. From this came a politics tending to "compromise": slow, prudent, pragmatic and empirical, in order to insert in ideal republican forms an autocratic power in facts, favoring a social balancing between the order defeated (the senatus) and the victorious classes (equites and proletarii). In the 29 BC he made himself proclaimed princeps and he take the name (not the title!) of imperator (that was a title gived to a victorious general), equalizing in that way the citizens to soldiers in front of his imperium. The senatus was acquiescent when not obsequious (offering him some tribunicial rights as the ius auxilii, some powers of appeal and the "calculus Minervae"). In the 27 BC Octavian orchestrate his withdrawal from scene for then accepting with keen reluctance the spontaneous offers aimed to him: an imperium (of uncertain nature) for the provinces not pacatae and, above all, the title of augustus: it was founded the state of auctoritas. This was an ancestral juridical concept that gave formally more authority to all that Octavian (from now Augustus) would have said or made in comparison to his colleagues with equal power (we have to remember that the powers he was using were still the republican ones, officially he was still no more than a consul). Augustus never ceased to tribute formal honours to senate (such as the institution of the senatorial office of praefectura urbi in the 26 BC), trying in facts to neutralizing its effective powers. In the 23 BC there is a new, decisive, constitutional structure: he gave up consulate (that he had holded for many years consecutively, and that formally was giving him the powers used since now), and assumed an imperium maius et infinitus (so all others province governors were reduced to his legates) and the tribunicia potestas for life in its full extension. In the most pure augustean style he eliminated pointless elements from princeps' powers, confirming the fundamental components: imperium and tribunicia potestas become the pillars of the empire: exercitus and populus, militar base and constitutional base. The republican form is preseved, the monarchist base assured: the empire is founded. This is an institutional overwiew, for others, such as an administrative one or a military one, just ask and I'll be glad to answer.. |
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