The Roman Republic was the period in time of ancient Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, and the establishment of the Roman Empire. It all started during this time where Rome’s control had expanded from the city’s surroundings all of the Mediterranean land. During the first few centuries of the Republic, it had expanded from the what is considered central Italy all the way to the Italian peninsula. By a century later it had control of North Africa, Spain, and what is today considered to be southern France. A few centuries after that, it had control of the rest of what is France, Greece, and eastern Mediterranean in modern day.
During this time of controlling a large portion of the Mediterranean, there were many internal tensions and problems that had ultimately led up to a few series of civil wars. Reaching its peak with the assassination of Julius Caesar. This assassination is the cherry on top that caused Rome to fully form into an empire. However, some people of Rome did not want to end the Republic and replace it with an Empire. There was
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The republic had failed because its main purpose was to be used for a small city state, not an entire empire that had rule over a portion of the world. To make it work and be stable, the had to form the empire. For the empire to work there were a few key factors to make it grow and succeed. To start, it had to be very well governed. The people had to have a say in it and to vote wisely, many people just voted for their own interests and not for the good of the whole Empire. Instability would result and had been shown to result if done otherwise. The subjects, and people had to have a better form of government and be governed better, the republic made this very difficult and is ultimately was caused it to