... that no one could 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 Members were the wealthy aristocrats and powerful people. Roman Republic started to fall with lots of civil wars for power and came to an end with Julius Caesar's assassination. Roman Republic dramatically ... started the new system of legates to govern the provinces, who were allotted to the princeps. Roman Empire was on its heights in the age of Augustus, but it came near to...

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