Rome's military was always tightly keyed to its political system. In the Roman kingdom the social standing of a person impacted both his political and military roles. The political system was from an early date based upon competition within the ruling elite. Senators in the Republic competed fiercely for public office, the most coveted of which was the post of Consul. Two were elected each year to head the government of the state, and would be assigned a consular army and an area in which to campaign. From Gaius Marius and Sulla onwards, control of the army began to be tied in to the political ambitions of individuals, leading to the political triumvirate of the first century BC and its military resolution. The late Republic and Empire were increasingly plagued by usurpations led and or supported by military conspiracies, leading to the crisis of the third century in the late empire and eventual collapse.
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They contained luxury goods including Roman glass, elephant tusks and beautiful ivories, carved in an Indian style. Archeologists now believe these ...
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When the . Roman Empire. dissolved into Eastern and Western entities, the East became the Byzantine Empire while the West forged a new identity tied to the Latin Church. ... the East struggled, the West was transformed. It can be argued that, at least on one level, the fate of East and West was intimately tied to religion and the role of Christianity, a fact acknowledged by Eastern emperors soliciting western . military. support via the Medieval papacy. ... More in . History. ...
