responsibility‚ and social mores especially among the upper classes. Augustus tried to reverse this moral decline by new legislation including making adultery illegal and put limits on lavish parties. The subsequent series of rulers of Rome included both Caligula and Nero. Both took the level of depravity to new heights. As the emperor’s power became more absolute‚ corruption and arbitrary rule dominated Roman society. Although the emperors of the Flavian dynasty and the “Five Good Emperors” did a lot to
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The reason why roman republic collapsed Roman republic began with the over throw of the roman monarchy and its replacement by a government headed by two consuls‚ elect annually by the citizens and advised by senate. During the first two centuries of its existence the Roman republic expanded rapidly through a combination of conquest and alliance‚ from central Italy to the entire Italian peninsula. Then republic continues to conquest new land such as North Africa‚ Greece‚ Southern France and Spain
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The Forum of Augustus was erected in 2 BCE‚ a full forty years after it was promised in 42 BCE. Augustus at the time known as Gaius Octavius at the time vowed to Mars during the battle of Philippi to erect a temple in his name. He did this most likely to bring him strength in this battle as after the battle he was able to avenge his adoptive father Julius Caesar by killing his assassins. Sometime after in 27 BCE he became Princeps of Rome changings his name to Augustus. He then made plans to
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“De Amicitia” (on friendship) was a dialogue written by a stoic philosopher known as Cicero during Julius Caesar’s most successful time as an emperor around 45 B.C. The dialogue focused on what Cicero felt aside from wisdom was the “[best thing that has ever] been given to man by the immortal gods.” Throughout the dialogue there are signs of contradiction about the friendship Cicero discusses. Normally friendship is not seen as a way of mutual profit but to Cicero this was one of the main reasons
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Hannibal‚ also known as Hannibal Barca‚ was a Carthaginian military general often referred to as one of the greatest generals in history and antiquity‚ together with Alexander the Great‚ Julius Caesar‚ Scipio Africanus‚ and Pyrrhus of Epirus. He led Carthage through many battles. However his most known was the Second Punic War against Rome. His tactics are still studied and used in the present day. Hannibal was born in 247 BC in Carthage‚ Tunisia. He was born into a family of military history.
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Most people know Gaius Julius Caesar as a powerful and famous Roman general and statesman. Caesar was born in Suburbia‚ Rome the year of 100BC‚ and later murdered in 44BC. Growing up Julius had a well-rounded family. His father governed the region of Asia‚ and his mother was the noble birth. Caesar’s private tutor taught him how to read and write by the age of six. When Caesar was just seventeen‚ he married Cornelia‚ who was the daughter of an influential politician in Rome. Then as he grew up‚ he
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During the first and second century CE of Rome‚ there were social tensions due to the unequal land distribution. As a way to mend the unequal land distribution issue‚ reformers attempted to redistribute the land‚ i.e. Gracchi Brothers‚ Tiberius and Gaius. Unfortunately these men did not succeed due to the fact that most members of the wealthy and ruling classes disagreed with the ideas of the brothers and found their way around their redistribution method. In fact‚ this action caused them to pay a
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had won and offered no mercy. From crossing Rubicon to take Rome‚ and defeating Pompey‚ Julius Caesar’s supreme authority ended on March 15‚ 44 B.C. due to his deplorable murder by a band of senatorial conspirators‚ led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. Even so‚ Romans troops continued to occupy Britain until 409 A.D.‚ when they evacuated due to their many troubles at home. Notably‚ they left roads‚ walls‚ villas‚ public baths behind‚ and most importantly‚ no central government.
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Even though the Sumerians and Egyptians were credited with the most important technology evolutions‚ Greece and Rome both had an impact on technology evolution. Most of their inventions and discoveries are still used today. Throughout the history of Rome‚ the Romans intelligence served them well with inventions like aqueducts‚ bound books‚ money‚ newspapers‚ or even concrete. However‚ the same could be said about Greece. The Greeks inventions consisted of the water mill‚ alarm clock‚ and basics of
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In the year 326 B.C.E.‚ Rome outlawed the use of persons as security for loans. No longer could people enter a form of slavery in order to pay back the loans that they could not afford. For example‚ in one story‚ a young boy named Gaius Publilius‚ who was enslaved for a debt that his father incurred to a man named Lucius Papirius‚ refused his lender’s requests. This led to his stripping and beating by the man before the boy could escape to alert others of the cruelty of such a system. The general
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