Roman Republic

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The Roman Republic was the era of ancient Roman civilization characterized by a system of elected magistrates, a powerful Senate, and expansion across the Mediterranean before the rise of the Roman Empire.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient civilization
former republic
historical state
capital Rome
causeOfEnd rise of Augustus
transition to principate
constitutionalPrinciple checks and balances
separation of powers
continent Africa
Asia
Europe
country Roman Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Rome
currency Roman as
Roman denarius
emergencyOffice dictator
endTime 27 BC
executiveBody college of consuls
expandedAcross Eastern Mediterranean
Gaul
Italian Peninsula
North Africa
Western Mediterranean
followedBy Roman Empire
governmentForm aristocratic republic
republic
headOfGovernmentTitle consul
headOfStateTitle consul
highestOffice consul
legalSystem Roman law
legislativeBody Comitia Centuriata
Comitia Tributa
Concilium Plebis
Roman Senate
locatedInTimePeriod classical antiquity
militaryBranch Roman legion
surface form: Roman legions

Roman navy
notableEvent Battle of Actium
Caesar’s civil war
Gallic Wars
Punic Wars
Social War
Spartacus (1960 film)
surface form: Spartacus slave revolt
notableFigure Cato the Younger
Cicero
Gaius Marius
Julius Caesar
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Pompey the Great
Scipio Africanus
officialLanguage Latin
otherOffice aedile
censor
praetor
quaestor
tribune of the plebs
precededBy Roman Kingdom
religion ancient Roman religion
socialStructure patricians and plebeians
startTime 509 BC

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Laelius citizenship Roman Republic
Calagurris timePeriod Roman Republic
Treaty of Brundisium country Roman Republic
Pompey’s Theatre country Roman Republic
Calpurnii Pisones country Roman Republic
Calpurnii Pisones timePeriod Roman Republic
Liberatores country Roman Republic
Casca citizenship Roman Republic
Ligarius citizenship Roman Republic
Lucius Antonius countryOfCitizenship Roman Republic
Manius Manilius countryOfCitizenship Roman Republic
Antyllus citizenship Roman Republic
Populares political faction country Roman Republic
subject surface form: Populares
Publius Clodius Pulcher citizenship Roman Republic
Pompeia countryOfCitizenship Roman Republic
Gnaeus Octavius (consul 87 BC) country Roman Republic
Octavii Rufi country Roman Republic
Lucius Licinius Crassus citizenship Roman Republic
Marcus Antonius (orator) citizenship Roman Republic
gens Sergia country Roman Republic
gens Sergia timePeriod Roman Republic
Titus Pomponius Atticus citizenship Roman Republic
Pomponius family country Roman Republic
Conflict of the Orders country Roman Republic
first secession of the plebs country Roman Republic
subject surface form: First Secession of the Plebs
Optimates-dominated Senate country Roman Republic
gens Sempronia timePeriod Roman Republic
grain law (lex frumentaria) country Roman Republic
Gaius Memmius citizenship Roman Republic
Gaius Memmius countryOfCitizenship Roman Republic
Marcius timePeriod Roman Republic
Publius Sulpicius Rufus citizenship Roman Republic
Cinna citizenship Roman Republic
Cinna country Roman Republic
Antonius family country Roman Republic
Antonius family timePeriod Roman Republic
Poppilia countryOfCitizenship Roman Republic
Tullia countryOfCitizenship Roman Republic
Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus citizenship Roman Republic