The fall of the Roman Republic.
...nt it needed to keep all its conquered areas from rebelling. The republic had a senate that could not make laws to control its new found subjects. It is clearly stated in the Ciceronian society “the senate was an advisory body without Legislative Powers (p.23).” If Rome’s senate could not make laws how could it control the conquered people from doing as they will? Rome also had many social problems eating away at the republic. Only Romans were citizens of Rome. But the people of the Italian peninsula wanted to be citizens as well. The Roman Government was against this. This drew a battle line between Roman citizens and Italians. The text states that it was 91 BC when this was happening “In 91 BC many Italians revolted against Rome over issues of full citizenship, thus triggering the social war (p.142).” The social changes happened so quickly because of how much land Rome had conquered and how quickly. In the ciceronian society it states “social changes occurred successively in a very short time (p.15).” The people who were not Roman citizens where subjects of Rome, or Slaves of Rome. Since Rome was only one city that left very many slaves who were unhappy with their lives and began revolting against Rome as well. Rome had lots of Economic troubles as well. While all the men where away fighting Rome’s battles no one was taking care of their small farms except for women and children. They could not take care of the farms well enough and were forced to sell their farms. Very rich aristocrats would buy up all the land and make huge lots of farm land under their private collection and put slaves on the farms working. The text explains “The wars of conquest had made some men astoundingly rich. These men wanted to invest their wealth in land. They bought up small farms to create huge estates (p.141).” This was what the Romans called latafundia. Although those men got very rich the veterans came home to no...