Did Augustus Change Rome

Augustus was an emperor who was doubted in the beginning and very few believed he had what it took to rule Rome. He quickly changed everyone's mind once they saw how he transformed Rome. He was an incredible ruler who took pride in everything he did and made sure to give his attention to any problem that Rome was presented with. He transformed Rome political system, he also changed Rome socially and improved their military as well. Under Augustus rule Rome was successful and also at peace.
Augustus did not have the empire simply handed to him once his father died he has to fight for it and prove that he was worthy. From the start he had a competitor "Octavian's enemy in his rise to power was Mark Antony, who had assumed the command of Caesar's legions."1 But Atony and …show more content…
But eventually Antony and Augustus no longer wanted to share the empire. Antony had Cleopatra the ruler of Egypt on his side, but not even that was enough from stopping Augustus from winning the battle for the empire. "In 29 Octavian returned to Rome in triumph."2 This was the beginning to the transformation of Rome politically. The first drastic change that Augustus made to Rome was to make Rome a monarchy. He wanted to give power back to the people as well as the senate he had seen that in the past taking the power away from the people didn’t make the empire successful. He had a different way of ruling, he decided it would be best to break the empire into parts making it easier to rule. The three parts were Rome, Italy and provinces, he made sure to meet each sections need so he had to add more laws or make more changes to one are than to another. This is a reason why Augustus was able to transform Rome to such an extent. He cared about his people and he would go above and beyond to make sure their needs were met and made sure there was peace among the empire. Rome was very dysfunctional at the time, there