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To: Cronos
The Roman Republic was doomed from the moment it starting distributing free food -- the people started asking for more and more and the Generals started competing among themselves over who could give them more.

While this was certainly several nails in the coffin of the Roman Republic, the doom of the Republic actually started before then. The fate of Rome was actually sealed when they became the undisputed masters of the Med. This brought an ever increasing wealth into the society, and as could be easily predicted, ambitious men vied for control of that wealth, in the process stripping all safeguards which had been put into place to counter the machinations of ambitious men.

Net result? Read any history book...

the infowarrior

70 posted on 12/28/2015 10:35:12 AM PST by infowarrior
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To: infowarrior

Hmmm... yes and the Republic never put sufficient checks on how one could use that wealth. Also, as the Social War showed, it didn’t continue with the spread of citizenship


72 posted on 12/29/2015 9:31:44 AM PST by Cronos (Obama�s dislike of Assad is not based on Assad�s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Mosl)
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