- Overthrew monarchy
- 2 Consuls
- Senate
- Assembly
- some elections
Social Structure
- Patricians
- Plebeians
- Slaves
- 12 tables
- pater familias
Military
- Carthage
- Punic Wars 264-146 B.C.
- Hannibal in 2nd Punic War 218-201 B.C.
- Rome continued to gain land in Mediterranean
Collapse of the Republic
- Small farmers displaced by slaves
- Roman currency devalued
- Civil War
- 1st Triumvirate (Pompey, Crassus, Julius Caesar)
Caesar
- Consul
- As general conquered Gaul
- Was recalled and refused to disband
- Dictator for life
- assassinated
Aftermath
- 2nd Triumvirate (Antony, Lepidus, Octavius)
- Actium 31 B.C. Octavius defeated Antony and Cleopatra
- Took name Augustus
- Imperator
- Pax Romana
