Rome: The Fall Of The Roman Republic

For those who are interested in learning about history, Roman Empire and its civilization were one of the most interesting spotlights in the human history. Roman Empire existed throughout a hundreds-years timeline, officially since 27 BC under the reign of Emperor Augustus. However, for one who wonders what created the foundation of this great empire, they have to back to the time a bit to the “the early Rome and the Republic” period. In this period, these events happened orderly, from the rise of Rome in Italy peninsula that led to creating the Roman republic, warfare with Carthage Empire, the conquest of the Mediterranean and it ended with the fall of the Roman Republic.
First at all, in 753 BCE, the brother Romulus and Remus founded Rome,
The Romans arranged their government into branches, consuls and praetors. This kind of governing system is one of Romans’ legacies for many today government systems. For instance, it can be understood as the House of Senate and the House of Representative in American government. However, the balance of power actually slightly favored the consul branch that consisted of two men who had the power to administer government and controlling army. On the contrary, Praetor branch appeared later and its main task was civil law administration. In fact, the power was really laid in the hand of a group of men who were rich and had influence in the Roman Society. Actually, the Republic of Rome was shaky once when the argument arose between two groups of Romans, the patricians who were wealthy, holding extremely power and the plebeians who were the rest of society, seeking the equality or basically they were looking for the democracy. As the result, the plebeians acquired some of what they wish for, such as more rights for the plebeians, all men were equal under the law, and a council of plebs was created in 471 BC to protect the plebeians against the patricians. However, the democracy had never come into being because of the intermarriage phenomenon between the plebeians and patricians that formed a
By the same token, all Roman men who were between the ages of eighteen to forty-six had to serve the army when needed as their responsibility, so the Roman army’s strength could be extremely great in warfare but the labor force still would be guaranteed for the production. For instance, normally the Roman army’s strength consisted of four legions, but after being defeated by the Carthage’s army in 216 BC, the number of legion rose up to twenty-five. Going back to the Romans’ expansion, the conquest of the Italy peninsula did not satisfy the Romans’ ambition because they wished to control the entire of the Mediterranean world. The Romans started conquered Sardinia, Sicily in 242 B.C, and soon later found the Carthage Empire, which was their biggest competitor in the Mediterranean world. The Carthage Empire was a gorgeous empire of the Phoenicians that extended much over the North Africa and a part of Iberia. Its influence also extended into the Mediterranean and the Carthage’s ships included merchant ships and navy presented numerously in the Mediterranean Sea. Eventually, the conflict between the Carthage Empire and the Romans broke out. This war lasted hundreds year, from 264 BC to 146 B.C, but it was not consecutive. The Punic Wars was the