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A 6 page paper analyzing the reasons for the creation of the Roman Empire as well as how these same factors led to its eventual collapse. The paper points out that there was simply no way that an Empire so huge and so culturally diverse could be managed at all, let alone imbued with a common sense of purpose. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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world. This is an almost incomprehensibly huge territory to rule over, particularly in times when travel was slow and communications no faster. And yet Roman rule brought about the longest
period of peace the world had ever known. How did this amazing civilization come into being -- and how did it founder? The first civilization worthy of the term on
the Italian peninsula was the Etruscan, a group who had landed on the coastline in the eighth century. Probably because their level of civilization was quite high, the Etruscan culture
easily dominated and subsumed the other tribes living in Italy. In the sixth century B.C., a series of political squabbles and scandals left a weak Etruscan king on the throne,
and he was deposed in favor of -- not another king -- but a pair of consuls whose joint rule was aided by a Senate and two assemblies, one tribal
and one military. A century later, the Tribunate of the Plebes, or commoners, was added, which for the first time gave the common people some real access to the workings
of government. By this point the government was no longer considering itself Etruscan; it had adopted the identity of its central city, Rome, and its people were Roman now. But
the republican political system worked out unevenly at best. The idea of having two consuls was particularly difficult, because instead of working together, the two men were automatically set up
in an adversarial relationship. Provision was made for the country being ruled by one man -- a "dictator" -- in times of national crisis when someone needed to take a
decisive hand, and by the first century B.C. this was happening with increasing frequency. Part of this was due to war, and part of it due to internal political strife.
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