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In the Roman Kingdom the social standing of a person impacted both his political and military roles, which were often organised into familial clans such as the Julia. These clans often wielded a large amount of power and were huge influences through the Roman Kingdom into the Roman Republic.
The Romans pursued the Seleucids by crossing the Hellespont, the first time a Roman army had ever entered Asia. [90] The decisive engagement was fought at the Battle of Magnesia, resulting in complete Roman victory. [90] [92] The Seleucids sued for peace, and Rome forced them to give up their recent Greek conquests. Rome again withdrew from ...
The Marian reforms were putative changes to the composition and operation of the Roman army during the late Roman Republic usually attributed to Gaius Marius (a general who was consul in 107, 104–100, and 86 BC [2]). The most important of these concerned the altering of the socio-economic background of the soldiery.
The history of the Constitution of the Roman Republic is a study of the ancient Roman Republic that traces the progression of Roman political development from the founding of the Roman Republic in 509 BC until the founding of the Roman Empire in 27 BC. The constitutional history of the Roman Republic can be divided into five phases.
Daniel R. Headrick, professor of History and Social Sciences at Roosevelt University, describes praetorianism as a type of militarism oriented to the interior life of a nation, often related to minor countries, that does not aspire to fight or win international wars, but instead to maintain its influence in the domestic political system ...
The Roman army (Latin: exercitus Romanus) served ancient Rome and the Roman people, enduring through the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), the Roman Republic (509–27 BC), and the Roman Empire (27 BC–AD 476/AD 1453), including the Western Roman Empire (collapsed AD 476/480) and the Eastern Roman Empire (collapsed AD 1453).
How the ascendant U.S. used its economic and military influence in Latin America ... sustains repressive regimes and undercuts democracy until it is too late. Venezuela, for example, received more ...
The constitution of the Roman Republic was a set of uncodified norms and customs which, [1] together with various written laws, [2] guided the procedural governance of the Roman Republic. The constitution emerged from that of the Roman Kingdom , evolved substantively and significantly – almost to the point of unrecognisability [ 3 ] – over ...