Like most governments, the Western Bureaucracy was corrupted and inefficient. Constant feuds and civil wars were happening within the government for power. That helped the Roman state and the grip that they had over the land. The West received far less of the wealthy provinces. With this it decreased taxes collected and kept them from being able pay troops.
The story of Romans founding is truly a remarkable legend of two young boys being raised by a shewolf, they were named Romulus and Remus . Romulus gave in greed and killed his brother and became of this he is now the sole aire to the city of Rome, this the begin of the Roman monarchical government . The first centuries of Roman history where ruled by a succession of seven kings .The Gauls destroy all of the history document when thy sacked the city after the Battle of Allia ,so no contemporary records of the kingdom exist therefore all the accounts of the kings must be questioned .This leads us to the story “The Rape of Lucretia “. The story is about a noble woman who was rape ,hence the title of the story ,Tarquinius the proud and how his son Sextus rapes her , she was so broken hearted that she killed herself .Her husband makes as vow “I swear with sword , fire and whatever will lend my arm strength , I will purse Tarquinius the proud , his wicked wife ,and his children , an no one will ever be
These aristocrats may have had the real power; consuls only stayed in office a year, had to be elected by the majority of aristocrats, and probably had the same agendas and goals of their aristocratic sponsors. At first the common people did not have much voice in this republic,
The ramifications of Rome’s expansions and rise to power were the inevitable fall of the republic and rise of the empire. Although other factors contributed to the fall of the republic, such as the reign of Julius Caesar, most of the reasons for this monumental switch are rooted in the Punic Wars. As the boundaries of Rome’s jurisdiction spread over the Mediterranean in the second and third century BCE, the senate proved to be inept at adjusting its method of governing. Richard Edwin Smith explains in The Failure of the Roman Republic that Rome, by means of the Punic Wars, became a powerful state in the Mediterranean world without fully realizing it. While Rome may have grown during this period, he says, “there was no change in her mental outlook to correspond to her changed position” (Smith, 50).
The challenges facing each society are quite different. Rome had a series of leaders that were not only inept, but they may have been mentally disturbed. These leaders were known as the Julio-Claudian, or Bad Emperors. Some of these bad emperors include Nero, Caligula, and Domitan. In the United States, some may dislike the President, but never in our history have we had a leader that killed members of his
The Roman Republic was facing internal problems that would cause it to ultimately collapse into the Roman Empire. Including social unrest between the classes and military entering into politics, among other reasons, the Roman Republic crumbled under itself and gave way to the beginning of new government. A second triumvirate ended with civil war and the Republic was over; however, Octavian created the Roman Empire in its place. Because of the stabilizing government, strong legal system and increasing trade, the Pax Romana was able to remain tied together for about 210 years. The Roman Republic was struggling to remain in power but the social unrest was a not a helping factor in helping the Republic to last for a while longer.
By 1860 there were only 1.4 million voters out of a population of 30million. Voters All men who were landowners, tenant farmers, professional men, like doctors or lawyers, or businessmen had the right to vote. The franchise (right to vote) was based on property. The 1832 Reform Bill gave the vote to the upper-middle class who along with the landed aristocracy dominated British politics Fairness Elections were marked by corruption and by intimidation. The small size of the electorate allowed vote-rigging and intimidation of voters as well as bribery.
He claims to have donated one hundred million sesterces in various dedications, and thirty-five thousand pounds of gold dedicated in his triumph of 29 BC. The effect of great games was also not lost on Rome's first emperor. Much like Caesar before him and those that followed, he used the games in grand style to control the populace. He lays out numerous times in which the games were hosted in his name or in those of family members. Five times he apparently hosted grand combat tournaments involving gladiators from all over the Roman world.
The Department of Homeland Security estimated in December 2003 that 8 million to 12 million illegal aliens resided in the United States and 700,000 new illegal enter and stay each year. If immigration continues at current levels, the nation's population will increase from 301 million today to 468 million in 2060. There is too much space and money is going into helping the people that have no rights first of all and no right be here. For example, right now marijuana is illegal. If 300 million pounds of illegal pot were caught in the U.S it would be seized and eliminated by government procedures.
I am sure prehistoric man was stratified, but possibly in different terms. Instead of economic differences they were separated by differences of who was the better hunter, and maybe who had the most food. Our roots draw back to the problem of stratification systems. As proof of the nonexistence of an egalitarian society I make reference to this statistics “Between 1981 and 2000 the wages of ordinary workers in the US roughly doubled. But in the same period… the earnings of America’s most highly paid CEOs rose by 4300 per cent.” (Bone 1) Amazing isn’t it that many people barely get by on their paychecks while other live lavishly.