In a previous post (June 6th, 2011) I wrote about the fall of the Roman Republic. The key milestones of the collapse were described with commentary describing the impact of each of them. The fall of the Republic can be seen as a connected string of events that snowballed into an unstable political system with no center of power. Once anarchy became the rule, the strongest man with the will to defy tradition was destined to take power.
The fall of the Republic began with the plight of the ex-soldier landowner whose loss of property produced a permanent underclass of poor in the city.