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It was the 503-year period of rule by emperors (509-27 BC) which followed the 482-year period of the Roman Republic (27 BC-476 AD). The Roman Republic fell under the weight of imperial expansion. Rome's expansion in the republican period was not the fruit of a grand design of imperialist expansion. It was the result of a number of wars which Rome fought and won. The system of government of the Republic was unable to cope with having an empire and became dysfunctional. In its last 64 years there were 12 civil wars which eventually brought the Republic down. The republic was replaced by the period of rule by absolute rulers by men which historians call emperors (the Romans did not use this term) which established relative political stability in the Roman Empire for some 200 years (historians call this the Pax Romana). After this, the Roman Empire started getting into trouble.

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