Roman Republic
Senate-governed ancient state
The Roman Republic was the period of ancient Roman civilization, lasting roughly from 509 BCE to 27 BCE, when Rome was governed not by kings or emperors but by elected officials and a senate.
This era saw Rome expand from a city-state to a Mediterranean power through conquest and political maneuvering.
The Republic's complex system of checks and balances, with consuls, tribunes, and senators sharing power, became a model studied by later democratic theorists.
Its collapse, marked by civil wars and the rise of Julius Caesar, led to the Roman Empire.
- Julius CaesarRoman dictator and general
- crossing the RubiconPassing beyond reversal
- Ides of MarchFateful mid-March date
- plebeiansRoman lower classes
- PompeyFirst Triumvirate member
senate · Scipio Africanus · civic virtue · Punic Wars · patricians · Twelve Tables · consul · senatus consultum · magistrate · praetor · laurel · Illyria · bread and circuses · centurion · dictator · Hannibal · triumph · Latin
- Historic RepublicsSan Marino
- ancient civilizationsAncient Egypt, Sumer, Ancient Greece, Aztecs, Egypt
- Ancient RomeJulius Caesar, Caesar, gladiator, gladiators, Colosseum
- ancient worldancient Greece, ancient Egypt, pyramids, pyramid, Athens
- Italian HeritageFlorence, Venice, Vatican, Tuscany, Umbria
- Roman topicsancient Italy
Roman RepublicRoman Empire
Ancient state from Augustus onward
Imperial Rome · Byzantine Empire · Western Roman Empire · Eastern Roman Empire
Roman Republicautocracy
Rule by one
monarchy · dictatorship · empire · absolute monarchy · tyranny
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