How did Romans gain support for their power?

Answer 1

By making people think they were just like them by adopting their culture in many instances, or doing things like the US does now with involvement in other countries' business.

Answer 2

The Romans were not stupid when it came to administering a conquered country or province. Despite what is often said in the history books, archiologists are begining to discover that the Roman Empire were not just a bunch of blood thirsty soldiers who went in and butchered everyone who opposed them.

More often than not there were a good few sympethisers that prefered to live the Roman way and were more than happy to embraise the Pax Romana. it was these people that the Empire looked to too help prepare the ground for conquest should the need arise.

Julius Ceaser himself saw the wisdom of cultivating and nurturing this form of co-operation as it meant that the people who were in the Empires sight were able to see the benefits of being citizens of the Empire. They were introduced to health regimes, sanitation, building programmes that would have and still do mystify, global trade, a wide variety of foods that may not have even seen the light of day before hand as well as the ubiquitous Roman baths, Ampitheatres, law, and a stable system of government that is still used as a model by most countries today.

If one or two tribes decided that they did,nt like the system and tried to get uppity about it, thats when the Roman legions went in and massacred a few thousand people as a lesson and shipped the rest of to be slaves or gladiators. But normally such extremes were usually the last resort. It took some pretty tough people to get Romes back up and when they did, Hanibal of Carthage is a good example, they paid the price for it.

On the whole however, Rome prefered to do things quietly using agents and traders to bring in Romanisation.

Answer 3

The Romans were some of the most adept and clever politicians the world has ever seen. They were also some of the best fighters, which was an incentive to come to terms with them. They loved to make deals and understood very well the carrot and stick approach, as well as the 'divide and conquer' rule. When it came to implacable enemies (like the Gauls), they would stir up trouble between tribes by bribing chiefs to start conflicts with each other.
The benefits of Roman citizenship were considerable. A citizen could not be flogged or tortured to get evidence for a trial, for example, and there were many commercial contacts for citizens living in the major ports and cities.

Answer 4

Were flexible and accomodated local cultures into their own. For example, Bath was associated with a British goddess (Sulis) but the Romans claimed Sulis was just another name for their goddess, Minerva, and they worshipped the goddess locally as Sulis-Minerva. They did this with lots of local gods.

Tribes that peacefully accepted their rule could often also have the chance to gain the benefits of Roman citizens (instead of being automatically enslaved).

Advanced military power would also had a role. If you rebelled, you usually got defeated pretty decisively.

Answer 5

They co-opted them into the Roman state, which means they got a share of loot in subsequent wars and they (at least the richer ones) got the benefits of Roman Law.
It may seem obvious and cynical but it's surprising how few conquerors do this.

Answer 6

Well.. after impregnating women from many nations and building roads their children forgot their roots and flowed the Roman way..


I don't know.. read the book.. then write your essay

Answer 7

murder how else!