Notes on Rome

The Republic Collapses
  • With the growing wealth and land came many problems
    • discontent with the lower classes
    • breakdown of the military order
  • Led to a new political system
  • Tiberius and Gaius were 2 brothers that tried to help poor Roman citizens
    • They had proposed laws that limited the amount of land that wealthy people could own and gave some land to the poor
    • They were then killed by some of the wealthy landowners
  • Their deaths sparked civil wars
  • Everything was breaking down
  • A general called Ceasar popped up.
  • Created a triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus
  • Became the dictator of Rome
  • Marcus Brutus and Gaius Cassius plotted his murder and Caesar was killed on March 15, 44 BC
  • After his death, civil war broke out and ruined the republic
  • Caesar's nephew/adopted son, Octavian took power with Mark Antony and Lepidus
  • They eventually got jealous of each other and split up
  • From the beginning of his rule Rome flourished, Pax Romana (207 years)
    • Rome was over 3 million square miles, 60-80 million people
    • Stable gov, new buildings, food, postal system, taxes, civil service

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