Class Lecture

What were the differences between the environments faced by the Romans when the characteristics social and political institutions of their state were forming and those of the Greek world when the polis was taking form? How did the Romans react differently to the conditions they faced? What social institutions formed in Rome as a result, and how did these help Rome to create a large and stable empire? Romans created a civilization that has shaped …

…religion, foreign policy, and public finance. There were offices of 2 Consuls, 8 Praetors, 10 Tribunes and 20 Quaestors, which overlooked the functioning of the Roman Republic. The Patricians the aristocratic class gave recognition to the Plebs, the Tribunes were all plebs, who were a lower class in the Roman society to help the Roman republic to be flexible, easily controllable and expandable. These offices and the Senate went a long way in the growth of the Roman Empire.