"The Beginning And End Of A City That Was Meant To Last"
Submitted by FFE on 07/10/2008 11:53 PM
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"The Beginning And End Of A City That Was Meant To Last"
Rome was one of the greatest cities that every many leader wanted to defeat. There were many factors to the rise and fall of Rome, but there were only a few that actually caused it to fall. Romans fought many battles with the cities that surrounded them, trying to gain power over them and became a powerful state. They formed many alliances with Latin towns and after they were united they were given large lands and manpower. The Celts had tried to attack the Romans and successed, this slowed down the Romans growth because after the attack the Romans had to rebuild what had been destroyed. They then decided to extend their citizenship to other cities, strengthen the state and gave it more manpower and wealth. This helped Rome to overcome the Mediterranean world. After the Romans started to gain more power over the cities they decided to change their institutions, their social patterns, and their way of living to be able to survive the new way of life.
The wars of conquest started which created many political problems for the Romans. Things were starting to get better for the Rome, they started a tax collection of the people and armies were made for defense. Rome was now one of the strongest cities and no one could defeat them. But when they thought things were getting better, they were starting to have economic problems, from all the land being destroyed from the battles. Also, the fighting took the men from their lands and their crops were starting to die. Because their wife and children were left to take care of the land and they were not able to do the work.
In 100 to 44 B.C. is when Julius Caesar came into action, during the Civil and Social Wars. Caesar was very smart when it came to fighting battles and knew how to win. But in 44 B.C. a group of conspirator's assassinated him and made another Civil War start. After Caesar's death his nephew Octavian took over. In 27 B.C the senate voted Octavian the name of Augustus for his success as...
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