... contributed significantly towards the eruption of Peloponnesian war and many more series of conflicts and unrest that rendered Macedonia an easy target by outside aggression. Unlike in the Roman Empire, not a single state powerfully endowed with strong structures to build an empire with formidable ramifications. Historical documentaries show explicitly that the political success of Philip ... a cultural commonwealth encompassing a multitude of cities. Divine citizenship was in this case, exclusive and unqualified by other identities. Roman institutions reflected and implemented a much m...

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... not easy, it took the conquest of whole Italy. Romans developed the political institutions in order to response to the problems as they arose. The three main elements of the Roman Republic were the magistrates, popular assembly, and the senate. These magistrates were three chief executive officers called consuls, the praetors, and the quaestors. The consuls possessed imperium to govern the ... say for certain if it was an aristocracy or democracy or despotism (Reader, The Histories of Polybius, 32). In the 2nd century B.C, the senate became the effective governing body in Rome. All the ...

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... Roman Republic began "life under the rule of its king, who was advised by a Council of Elders, and where decisions on war and peace were voted in the Assembly of warriors. It evolved into a republic, where former royal functions and duties - religious, judicial, and military - were exercised by a number of separate magistracies, and the Council of Elders had become a Senate ... - In fact, not much is known about Rome before the Republic, other than the fact that the common people were very subservient to the upper class, and rendered certain services to them in return for their protection...

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... greatness along with the relationship that both these ideas form. By clarifying this relationship, Machiavelli offers an insight to a possible conclusion to why the Roman Republic became such a successful empire. According to Machiavelli, Rome was the ultimate free state in the ancient world. No other empire before it ... that in turn laid the ground work for liberty and greatness once the monarchy was abandoned and a republic was established. Liberty in the Roman Republic came in sporadic episodes while in its first stages. However, since Principality and Aristocracy were still present i...

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... greatness along with the relationship that both these ideas form. By clarifying this relationship, Machiavelli offers an insight to a possible conclusion to why the Roman Republic became such a successful empire. According to Machiavelli, Rome was the ultimate free state in the ancient world. No other empire before it ... that in turn laid the ground work for liberty and greatness once the monarchy was abandoned and a republic was established. Liberty in the Roman Republic came in sporadic episodes while in its first stages. However, since Principality and Aristocracy were still present i...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate