All elected Roman officials had a one year term of office. The consuls were the highest ranking official so you could say that they "ruled" although each public office had its own responsibilities.
Augustus turned Rome into a monarchy again, drawing it away from its republican past and impulses, and, finally, establishing an empire. and he just down right stupid.
Emperor Justinian I (Eastern Roman Empire) tried to restore the Roman Empire during is reign between 527 and 565. He managed to reconquer Italy, North Africa and parts of Spain. Actually it was It was his general Belisarius that did much of the conquering, but Justinian I was emporer. He considered it his divine duty to restore the empire to its ancient boundaries.
Julius Caesar, was the last dictator of the Roman republic. It was his grand nephew and heir, Octavian, (Augustus) who made the transformation from republic to principate, or to what's erroneously called the "empire". (Rome was already an empire under the republican form of government)
every thing was a turning point to an extent. However some major turning points in the history of Rome were the founding of the city, the ousting of the kings and the formation of the republic, the assassination of Caesar, the battle of Actium, and most importantly the assassination of Caligula. This killing gave the praetorian guard a power that had repercussions down to the latter part of the empire.
One of their rules was that if the emperor was out everyone had to look down at the ground, and lay out their cloaks for the emperor to walk over.
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The past tense of "step down" is "stepped down."
because the fall of the Roman Empire was falling down
During the Roman Republic two censors were responsible for enforcing the rules of public morality. Their offices were not renewed during the civil wars which brought down the Republic. Augustus, the first Roman emperor, appointed two censors in 222 BC. Thereafter this role was taken on by the emperors as Prefects of the morality (Praefectura Morum). This continued into the Late Empire.
No, Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern split of the Roman Empire and later ruled from Rome through Southeastern Europe and Asia Minor, down to Egypt and across North Africa.
As the Roman Empire declined, its famous road system suffered. Roads gradually broke down because they were not maintained. What was a major effect of this? Communication in the empire became less reliable.
The Holy Roman empire fell because Napoleon overran many German states and the Western German states joined his Rhine confederation making the Holy Roman Empire obsolete. Thus emperor Francis II. lay down his imperials crown.
because where the roman empires kept on hunting down different species of animals and cutting down trees all the nature went and fought against them and won.
The break down of law and order
Trajan, who crossed the Danube added Dacia (Romania) to the Roman Empire, and he expanded into the East, although the Eastern provinces were abandoned by his successor Hadrian. Earlier, the Emperor Claudius added Britain to the Roman Empire.
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