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Rome was really the first true Republic even though they had their struggles with corruption and power hungry politicians. No other civilization had a system with a Senate. After
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The Roman republic officially ended in 31 BC after Actium when Octavian assumed sole power. However you could say it unofficially ended years earlier when Julius Caesar was made dictator
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One of the reasons that it fell was the use of violence by the Roman elite. After the attempted (mainly agrarian) reforms of the Gracchi brothers, Tiberius and Gaius in the 130s to
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gradual disintegration of the economy of Rome and the barbarian invasions that were its final doom.
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