I need an answer ASAP! Rome’s government before the first century AD was a republic. Explain what this meant and how the rise of powerful generals challenged the idea of a republic. PLEASE HAVE AT LEAST 2 OR MORE SENTENCES!!! Thank you! : )

In the first century BC, Rome was a republic. Power lay in the hands of the Senate, elected by Roman citizens. But the senators were fighting for power between themselves. Order had given way to anarchy and only might was right.

The man who played the biggest role in disrupting Rome’s republic was Augustus Caesar, who made himself the first emperor of Rome in 27 B.C.E. By that point, the republic’s political norms had been breaking down for about a century, and Augustus was in a position to take advantage of that

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