what did the ancient roman government consist of?
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The Roman armies marched under the banner of SPQR, Senatus Populusque Romanum, meaning the Senate and the People of Rome, and this does give a shorthand way of looking at the Roman Republic.  (In pre-republican times Rome was ruled by kings; in the Imperial period it was ruled by the Emperors, although sometimes the appearance of Republican rule was maintained.)\n\nThe Senate was officially an advisory body, but wielded great power, especially if they were united.\n\nThe People were represented in four separate people's assemblies, Comitia Curiata, Comitia Centuriata, Comitia Tributa and the Concilium Plebis.  These bodies had various powers, various compositions, (i.e. knights, patricians, plebians), various ways of choosing members and various ways of voting.\n\nThat's the 5 cent version of a very complex topic.  See one of the many online encyclopedia for more details.
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A governmental system with a concentrated would be like a dictator.  All the powers of government (making the laws, enforcing the laws, and interpreting the laws) are concentrated into a few people's hands.  In the US, these powers of the government are split into the three seperate branches, but in an autocracy, all these powers are in one person's hands.
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Ancient Athens, for much of its history, had a direct democracy, which however worked much like an oligarchy, because only land-owning male Athenians were full citizens. There was a a small, representative body called a Boule that decided small issues that came up on a day to day basis, but any major issue, such as declarations of war, was put up to a vote of all citizens.
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it has a democratic government based on the westminister system
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what government , what country, what century, what decade, what form of government. \nwhy ask vague questions?
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There were quite a few jobs during ancient rome-\nPeople in the Roman Empire were mostly farmers. About 90 percent of the people in the empire were farmers. Other people traded with other countries. Some people ran markets on the streets of Rome.\nhttp://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webunits/greecerome/Romeroles1.html\nhttp://www.historylink101.com/ancient_rome/ancient_rome_daily_life.htm
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Look on Wikipedia.  Start with Rome, and if you are referring to the Collisseum, just search for that.  There is a lot of information there.
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Well, they only laid the blueprint for our Constition and government.  We have a President, they had an Emperor. We both have/had a Senate.....I could go on, but it would take a very long time to list every contribution the Romans have made to not only the United States, but many other nations as well.  They also persecuted Christians for quite some time...it seems we're moving towards that trend-globally.
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The Roman Republic. That's where they got the name for the "senate" and the idea for a two house legislature. By the way, the Romans were pagans at that time.
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athens - types of government in order of history:\n\n- rule by king\n- rule by oligarchy (the rule of the archons)\n- rule of solon (benevolent dictator governing by the will of the people)\n- rule by class-based assemblies (set up by solon - there were 4 levels, arranged by class, each had an assembly and governed certain affairs)\n- the tyranny of Peisistratus & Hippias (after Solon's death and a period of transition toward anarchy)\n- The conquering of athena by sparta\n- the appointment of a spartan-picked athenian council.\n- the rebellions of the council\n- the second invasion by sparta - repelled by athens\n- the rule of Cleisthenes - where most of what you think of as "democracy" came in to play.\n\nAll free men living in Athens and Attica (the area surrounding Athens) were classified as "citizens".  Cleisthenes established a council which would be the chief arm of government with all executive and administrative control. Every citizen over the age of thirty was eligible to sit on this council; each year the members of the council would be chosen by lot. The Assembly, which included all male citizens, was allowed to veto any of the council's proposals and was the only branch of government that could declare war. In 487, long after Cleisthenes, the Athenians added the final aspect of Athenian democracy proper: ostracism. The Assembly could vote (voting was done on potsherds called ostra ) on expelling citizens from the state for a period of ten years. This ostracism would guarantee that individuals who were contemplating seizing power would be removed from the country before they got too powerful.\n\n\nA decision by a jury commonly refers to a court case.  In civil matters the majority of the jury must be in agreement as to a verdict.  In a criminal matter they must be unanimous (all) in agreement as to the verdict.\n\nAs a tidbit - athenian juries were typically composed of 400-500 individuals and decided based on majority votes (sometimes 50% +1...sometimes 3/5, sometimes other ratios)  and...if you brought suit against another and then failed to meet a minimum threshold (usually 2/5 of the votes) then you were automatically guilty of false prosecution.  substaintial fines ensued  :)\n\nand - athenian juries only had the options of: fine, jail confinement, banishment (loss of citizenship) and death.  The prosecution could propose one punishment, the defense another.  prosectutors almost always urged death so that the defendant would self-select an appropriately stiff punishment as an offering. (usually a large fine).
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The Republic form of government, I know that's for sure, that's when Christ came (correct me if I'm wrong) and well, Roman numerals, architecture...
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Its a form of government, there are monarchies where you have Kind and Queen, Republic, Oligarchies, Democracy like the USA, Socialist, Communist like China, Anarchies, Fundmentalist where supreme religious leader rule.
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The main problem before the reforms of Solon in the early 6th century BC was class strife. There were very small numbers of people who had significantly more wealth than the rest of the city. His reforms intorduced the first democratic elements, but the civil strife didn't really go away and a tyrant took over until the late 500s BC, when Cleisthenes set up their democracy as we know it. The civil strife never really went away, but it was much better once every citizen had an equal share in government.
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As empires go, the Roman Empire was very large for its day. \nThe Romans needed to roads to provide fast communications and ease of troop movement.
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This is quite complicated.  The History Channel has a good show on this topic called Julius Caesar's Rome, which tells about the rise and fall of the roman empire.  \n\nCheck this site for a brief history:
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The Roman Empire is the name given to both the imperial domain developed by the city-state of Rome and also the corresponding phase of that civilization, characterized by an autocratic form of government. It succeeded the 500 year-old Roman Republic (510 BC – 1st century BC), which had been weakened by the conflict between Gaius Marius and Sulla and the civil war of Julius Caesar against Pompey.[1] Several dates are commonly proposed to mark the transition from Republic to Empire, including the date of Julius Caesar's appointment as perpetual dictator (44 BC), the victory of Caesar's heir Octavian at the Battle of Actium (September 2, 31 BC), and the Roman Senate's granting to Octavian the honorific Augustus (January 16, 27 BC).[2]
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Lots of present day laws have some basis in Ancient Rome. I think the idea of aqueducts was also invented by Romans. Those darn romans think of everything.