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the first system of goverment was monarchy, during this period, Rome took the form of a city-state
Rome had seven kings the kings were higst authority in political, military and religius matter, were suppported by two institutions:
The Senate made up of the heads of the citys most powerful families
The comita made up of the rest of the citizens. They represented the differents peoples who inhabited Rome The last of the kings was Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, a very authoritian ruler -
Was the political system wich lasted five centuries.after the kings were expelled, power was held by the patricians, the heads of the leading families
Romans divided persons it among institution: magistraces were the bodies og govermentm, were elected each year with some execeptions, the situation was caused by plebeians senate was the most important institution. Had the major decisions were made. It was made up of 300 former magistrates comita made up of free citizens -
Roma defeated all the peoples of Italian Peninsula, roman began their conquets of the western mediterranean. This Led to conflict with Carthage
Roman government was headed by two consuls, elected annually by the citizens and advised by a senate composed of appointed magistrates. As Roman society was very hierarchical by modern standards; the evolution of the Roman government was heavily influenced by the struggle between the patricians and Rome's land-holding aristocracy, -
The rome expandedinto the eastern Mediterranean defeating the Greeks and Macedonians
The main cause of the Punic Wars was the conflicts of interest between the existing Carthaginian Empire and the expanding Roman Republic. The Romans were initially interested in expansion via Sicily, part of which lay under Carthaginian control. At the start of the First Punic War , Carthage was the dominant power of the Western Mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire. -
With the subsequent annexation of Syria and Egypt, mediterranean became the roman Mare nostrum
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The history of the Roman Empire covers the history of Ancient Rome from the fall of the Roman Republic until the abdication of the last Western emperor.. Antony was defeated at the Battle of Actium in the Senate and People of Rome made Octavian imperator thus beginning the Principate, the first epoch of Roman imperial history usually they later awarded him the name Augustus, august was the first roman empereor. roman reached its greatest territorial extent
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The Western Roman Empire is the name given to the western part of the Roman Empire after the administrative division started with the Tetrarchy of the Emperor Diocletian and consolidated by the Emperor Theodosius who divided it between his two sons: honorius:receivedthe westrern half, with Rome as its capital Arcadus:recive the eastern half, with Constantinope as its capital
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The Western Roman Empire is the name given to the western part of the Roman Empire after the administrative division started with the Tetrarchy of the Emperor Diocletian and consolidated by the Emperor Theodosius who divided it between his two sons: honorius:receivedthe westrern half, with Rome as its capital Arcadus:recive the eastern half, with Constantinope as its capital
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The visigoths were able to cross the limes and ransack Rome, the division not improve the situation in thye western half of the Empeire
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The Heruli overthrew Romolus Augustulus, the last Roman empereor in the west.
This event marks the end of Antiquity and the start of the Midle ages
