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The people of Rome elected leaders to make all government decisions. To help make some decisions Rome's leaders looked to the senate. For the Roman Republic government to succeed the citizens needed to be active. Romes leaders encouraged citizens to vote and run for office.
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∙ 9y agoOne major change was splitting the empire into a Western and Eastern Roman Empire. This resulted in the lack of a strong united political system. Some problems that caused the split were that the empire was getting too large to control, and the shifting of religious practices. Many feel Christianity was, in no small part, to blame for inner conflicts that eventually led to the demise of the Roman Empire.
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∙ 9y agoThis period saw changes which were territorial, imperial expansion, and socio-economic, the enrichment of the rich and the impoverishment of the poor, rather than changes in the political structures of the Roman Republic.
There was not much change in the structure of the political institutions of the Republic. By then creation of new executive officer of state (the praetors, censors, curule aediles and quaestors) had been completed, the institutions of the plebeians (the plebeian tribunes, the plebeian aediles and the Plebeian Council) were well established and the plebeians (commoners) had already obtained power-sharing with the patricians (aristocrats). The only major change was the Lex Hortensia, which reiterated that the resolutions of the Plebeian Council were binding on all citizens (thus, including the patricians who refused the laws by this assembly to be binding on them) and removed the power of the senate to veto them.
The year 264 saw the start of the First Punic War against Carthage. By winning this war Rome gained control of Sicily and took over Sardinia and Corsica from Carthage. With the three Illyrian Wars (229-228 B.C. - 219-18 B.C. - 168 B.C.) Rome gained control of the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. In 220 B.C. Rome conquered the lands of the Gauls in Northern Italy. In 201 B.C. Rome won the second Punic War (218-201 B.C.), took over the Carthaginian territories in southern Spain and made an alliance with the Numidians, Carthage next door neighbours in Algeria who defected to Rome. In 146 B.C. Rome won the Third Punic War (149-46 B.C.), destroyed Carthage and took over her home territories (Tunisia and western Libya). Thus Rome gained control over the western basin of the Mediterranean Sea. In the same year the Romans annexed mainland Greece. In 133 B.C. king Attalus of Pergamon bequeathed his kingdom (in western Turkey) to Rome.
Imperial expansion created great wealth, which was concentrated in the hands of the rich. There were changes in the rural economy. The owners of the large landed estates (who were patricians) benefitted from a large influx of slaves created by the mentioned wars (slaves were war captives). Slave labour enabled these landowners to expand their estates at the expense of economically distressed peasants. They took advantage of this to buy land on the cheap or to force peasants off their land. Dispossessed peasants flocked to Rome to eke out a living there, swelling the masses of the poor.
In 134 B.C. Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus passed an agrarian law which fined landowners who owned more than the legal limit of land ownership and required them to forfeit their excess possessions but provided for compensation for this. The law also included a redistribution of land to the landless poor who were to be given plots of land to farm. The reform was bitterly opposed by the senate, which represented the interests of the patrician aristocracy. In 133 B.C., Tiberius Gracchus and 300 of his supporters were clubbed to death by thugs hired by senators.
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∙ 12y agoBecause the Roman citizens couldn't agree on what they would do with the government and who would be ruling Rome. They also shared different views about who would have what rights.
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