leaving them unrepresented in the republic government and more vulnerable to abuse. The "social war," fought between 91 B.C. and 88 B.C. saw a number of communities in Italy rebel against Roman ...

Roman society is often represented as one of social extremes - with the wealth ... or 'out' of the leading circles was signalled in the Republic by the division of the population of Rome into ...

In the space of a hundred years, Rome was transformed from a republic with democratic ... Octavian established the political structure that was to be the basis of Roman imperial government for ...

Roman society was extremely rigid. By the first century, however, the need for capable men to run Rome’s vast empire was slowly eroding the old social barriers. The social structure of ancient ...

The earlier era of Roman history is known as the Roman Republic, meaning the affairs ... The Carthage war The republican structure changed when Romans got involved in a numbers of wars against ...

The Senate with 300 to 600 members was a governing body that effectively controlled the overall social and political decisions. It played a role in maintaining political balance of the Roman Republic ...