How Did These Factors Contribute to the Eventual Downfall of the Roman Republic?
All these factors contributed to the downfall of the Roman Republic. The conflicts between the two social classes would eventually lead to wars and slave revolts, which the Senate would try as suppress. These wars would lead to the Government losing control of the people, and the economy. The diversity of both classes economically split the population in half. Plebeians demanded to be equal and Patricians wanted to be separate. This lead to the Gracchi brothers wanting to make the two classes equal.
“By the means they adopted they destroyed they harmony of the state, and by their Impetuous hate put an end to that orderly evolution of government by which Rome had emerged from the chrysalis of the city state to become the mistress of an Empire and by which alone, even if change must now be more rapid, further readjustments come be made. Instead, irresponsibility, selfishness, mutual animosity and a profound disregard for all the problems of state and empire gradually become the characteristic features, and in the growing discord the voice of responsibility was seldom heard.”- R.E Smith
