This Rise of the Individual, as I call it, is both the natural result of Roman expansion and increased wealth and a testament to the strength of the Roman Republic but it is also the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic. Beginning in the second century, Rome had outgrown the institutions that it had. One theme that I will continue to emphasize over the next eight lectures is that Rome would not, or more likely, could not change their political and social structures quickly enough to accommodate for their rapid expansion. As a result, that would allowed them to emerge so quickly in the Western Mediterranean as a dominate force would ultimately be their undoing as they drifted into civil war at the end of the first millennium. This lecture marks the beginning of that story.
Rome 07: The Punic Wars
Rome 06: The Conquest of Italy
Rome 05: The Institutions of the Roman Republic
Rome 04 - The Mythical Origins of Rome
Rome 03: The Ancient Italian Peninsula
Rome 02: The Ancient Mediterranean
Rome 01: Early Writing Cultures
Ancient Greece 22: The Achaean War
Ancient Greece 21: The Macedonian Wars
Ancient Greece 20: The Pyrrhic War
Ancient Greece 15: Hellenism
Ancient Greece 11: The Peloponnesian War
Ancient Greece 10: The Persian Wars
Ancient Greece 07: Sparta
Ancient Greece 06: Ancient Greek Geography and Military
Ancient Greece 05: The Polis
Ancient Greece 04: The Greek Renaissance
Ancient Greece 03: The Dark Ages and Homeric Society
Ancient Greece 02: The Ancient Mediterranean
Ancient Greece 01 - Early Writing Cultures
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