HIST 1001 Chapter : September 30th
Document Summary
The roman political system was designed to control a city. In some way it proved to be unable to govern an empire this large. In some ways it was a victim of itself. Sea proved to be the undoing of the. It was not designed to rule this much. The # of poor people is growing, there are shanty towns, political strains. Powerful enough that it became almost independent politically. People felt more loyal to the army than the republic. During the last 100 years of the republic, the history of rome is mostly of instability, social confict, violence, assassinations, civil wars, dictatorships and rebellions.
