The Roman conquest generally is acclaimed for its greatness at conquering both near and far off lands, ruling these lands using isolation strategies and this worked for a while until Rome deviated from its initial incorporation policy. For the size of the empire, negatives were bound to happen and these to an extent formed the inception of its downfall as a great empire. A number of factors stand out as important matters that were so negative that they impacted the Roman Empire. Among the notable negative effects are
Agricultural changes – small farmers owned land and believed in hard work serving Rome. It can be inferred that after the second Punic wars the land was destroyed by fires that were lit in order to prevent Hannibal’s soldiers from getting food. The fire devastation left the land ruined and the small farmers did not have the financial resources to restore the land hence the wealthy patricians bought the small farms and combined them to create estates. This loss of dignified living
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place that had slaves. The Romans began to send prisoners as slaves to Rome to work in the estates and these slaves in Rome had no rights whatsoever, working very hard for their masters and this caused unrest among them. Initially, slaves were a sign of great wealth but later it had a destabilizing effect on the social system of Rome since the slaves were the preferred cheap labor on the estates causing massive unemployment for the average citizen. A rift stemming from this social system failure emerged between the Optimates and the Populares using landless, unemployed demagogues to revolt at the inability of the senate to govern. The slaves were abundant in Rome and their numbers were almost equal to that of the freedmen which were dangerous to the Roman