Roman Political Developments during the Republican Era

Abstract

Rome expanded shortly after the establishment of the Roman Republic in the 6th century BC, although it did not expand outside the Italian peninsula until the third century BC, after which, the republic was an empire long before it had an emperor, the republic  was not Roman nation-state in the modern sense, Rather, it was a network of self-governing cities, although with varying degrees of independence from the Roman Senate, provinces administered by military commanders, ruled not by emperors, but by yearly elected rulers, Roman consuls above all, in conjunction with the Senate for various reasons, were The first century BC was a time of political and military unrest, which eventually led to the rule of emperors, The military power of the consuls was based on the Roman legal concept of Imperium, the Roman Empire had a government headed by emperors and large territorial regions, and served the city of Rome as the capital, the Republican system, which replaced the Roman monarchy in the 6th century BC, became due to the expansion of the Roman Empire had institutions and forms governance in the area governed by it, While the republican governmental institutions of Rome aided the political development, which served the legacy and architectural traditions of Rome as the basis for neoclassical architecture.