西方文化入门作业(二)
姓名：谢劲萱
年级专业：2011级英语04班
学号：20110974
Fall of the Roman Republic
Everyone seems to write about the fall of the Roman Empire. I guess they think the end of the Empire is very important because it marks the end of a thousand years of Roman power and the onset of the Dark Ages. I, however, would rather study the fall of the Roman Republic because it is much more interesting. First of all the Republic is a classic governmental form like the democracies of Greece. The Empire, by contrast, was a corrupt totalitarian system which was bound to collapse at some point under its own weight.
The Roman Republic was the period of the ancient Roman civilization when the government operated as a republic. It began with the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, traditionally dated around 509 BC, and its replacement by a government headed by two consuls, elected annually by the citizens and advised by a senate.
Roman society was hierarchical. The evolution of the Constitution of the Roman Republic was heavily influenced by the struggle between the patricians, Rome’s land-holding aristocracy, who traced their ancestry back to the early history of the Roman kingdom, and the plebeians, the far more numerous citizen-commoners. Over time, the laws that gave patricians exclusive rights to Rome’s highest offices were repealed or weakened, and a new aristocracy emerged from among the plebeian class. The leaders of the Republic developed a strong tradition and morality requiring public service and patronage in peace and war, making military and political success inextricably linked. During the first two centuries of its existence the Republic expanded through a combination of conquest and alliance, from central Italy to the entire Italian peninsula. By the following century it included North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, Greece, and what is now southern France. Two centuries after that, towards the end of the 1st century BC, it included the rest of modern France, and much of the eastern Mediterranean. By this time, despite the Republic’s traditional and lawful constraints against any individual’s acquisition of permanent political powers, Roman politics was dominated by a small number of Roman leaders, their uneasy alliances punctuated by a series of civil wars.
The Essay on The Roman Republic and Imperial Rome Matrix
... Roman Republic was the most successful government because the Roman Republic established a form of government that was copied by several countries for many centuries. ... is telling us is that all empires at some period and time does decline and fall. Which form of government was most ... was an empire long before it was imperial it is clear that change was somewhat necessary. What led to the fall of ...
The Roman Republic was transformation into a new kind of order, the Roman Empire. Here are the main reasons:
① city-state basis. The Roman republic is established on the basis of the city-state system. The city-state system’s economy is based on small-scale farmers. After extensive use of slaves, the Italian real estate has become increasingly concentrated in a small number of large landholders. Small-scale peasant economy collapsed together with the basis of the city-state. And therefore, the city-state must be followed perish. The dump of the republic is immutable historical trends.
② original senate can not represent the interests of the slave class of the entire Mediterranean region, it can only represent the interests of the local slave owners. After a series of wars of aggression from 3 centuries BC to 2 centuries BC, Rome developed from a small city-state to the rule of the tyrants of Italy and the Mediterranean region countries. The original handful of veterans nobility dominated senate has not sufficiently representative of the whole of Italy and the Mediterranean region as well as the interests of the majority of the overseas territories of the slave-owning class. The broad range of slave owners in Italy and the Mediterranean region demand the abolition of a handful of aristocrat’s control.
The Term Paper on 5 8 New York Citys Rent Stabilization System part 1
/5, 8 New York Citys rent stabilization system In the following essay I am going to examine New York Citys rent stabilization system and make a statement that the abolishment of the given rent stabilization system would have mostly beneficial effects on the NY community as a whole. I will state that rent stabilization act of NY in fact benefits the rich (mostly affluent individuals in lower and ...
③ Republic citizenship conservative is not good for Roman to rule the entire Mediterranean region. In the vast territory within the empire, Roman citizenship was granted the very conservative, which is not conducive to the expansion of the basis of ruling.
④ original state system can not give full play to the implementation of suppression of the slave and the maintenance of the rule of the mandate. Series of events of the Civil War era indicate that under the new situation that various contradictions inherent in the slave society is becoming increasingly acute, especially the changes in class relations and the intensification of the class struggle, the republican system is no longer able to maintain the interests of the slave owners. Thus, the empire built on the basis of military rule is the inevitable trend. The empire finally replaced the republican system.
