Why did the Roman Republic fail?

Question

Why did the Roman Republic fail

Answer 1

The Republic fell because:
1) The Roman Senate was a patrician-based birthright group of men who were elevated to their office, for the most part, by simply being born into the right family, not based on merit at all. They looked down upon any able men who were not of their class and so did not have the most effective men running the government.
2) In the years before its fall, the Republic went through two dictatorships (Marius, Sulla) and a period of triumvir (Crassus, Pompey, Julius Caesar) which more or less proved that Rome could effectively be ruled by an authoritarian form of government, not just by a Republic. The citizens of Rome saw this, and though they went through some tough times during the proscriptions of Marius and Sulla, they remembered these periods as the ones in which Rome had expanded its borders and gained monetarily. The Republic began to be seen to some as an impediment in the advancement of Rome, and the Senate as incompetent and corrupt.
3) The Senate failed to see what it had in Julius Caesar, a noble patrician who cared for all of Rome, not just the upper classes. It reviled him and took every chance it could to hammer him down and cast aspersions on his dignity, which Caesar could not ignore. If Caesar had not been murdered, Rome would have grown much quicker than it did and who knows what types of lasting legislation he would have enacted. He was left with no choice but to destroy the Republic, though he kept the Senate for that was Roman tradition, and he always respected the good traditions of Rome. Sadly, that led to his downfall.

Answer 2

The Roman republic failed because of corruption, economic strain, and civil war between Gaius Julius Caesar and The Senate. There were many other reasons but those were the main ones....
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Answer 3

Hello,

Too many civil wars, ineffective senate and government to take control over various warring generals whose men'd loyalties were more to their military leader than the state.
Socially differences and strife between the Plebs and Patricians, not addressing poverty and land reform and corruption.

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Michael

Answer 4

There are many different reasons. That is a very difficult question to answer in this setting. Your best bet is to go to wikipedia and search Rome, and I'd be willing to bet they have a section on its fall.

Answer 5

It divided into two empires, the Eastern and Western. Then, it imploded by way of internal strife, internal corruption, and failed internal policies (neglecting the common people, etc.).
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Answer 6

Corruptness plain & simple

Answer 7

Greed and Coruption, plain and simple, among its politicians.