Title: Imperium: How Rome became an Empire | by Christos Antoniadis | Medium
Headings: Imperium: How Rome became an Empire
Imperium: How Rome became an Empire
Factors of Imperial Expansion
The Republican System
Roman attitudes to non-Romans and Italian elites
The Roman Army
Rome Dominant
From Res Publica to Principate
The Fall of the Republic
Octavian Caesar Augustus — Rome’s First Emperor

Content: Gaius Marius. Wikipedia. Public Domain. The constant wars overseas and the need to campaign in faraway territories (such as Asia Minor and Hispania) as the Roman Republic entered the Hellenistic Word and annexed provinces led to devastation for the farmers who constituted most of the troops: their farms were not cultivated while large landowners using slave labor got them out of business. This led to social unrest. Tiberius Gracchus, a populist aristocrat, offered an ambitious reformist proposal of redistributing lands to the poorest citizens. His opponents, not unfairly perhaps, accused him of attempting to undermine the Res Publica and claimed that he wanted to declare himself King. He had already violated const