How Did Octavian Change The Roman Empire

The Roman Empire mainly had a republic based government and though Rome was adaptable to change in most places the exception was in the political form of change. So as time went on the Roman classes soon began to compete against one another for higher for higher ranks in the political system. This caused a large gap between the rich and poor Romans. Eventually after several people conquering different places throughout the civil wars a man that went by the name of Octavian made his position as absolute ruler and put political institutions back in place, he then changed his name to Augustus and became the first emperor of Rome. As the empire began to expand it soon became too much to oversee and this was the beginning of the end of the Roman empire. In the end …show more content…
The eastern part was given to Adherbal and the larger western part was given to Jugurtha after he bribed the commissioner. Jugurtha eventually had Adherbal torchered to death he became King. This form of corruption occurred all throughout the Roman empire. Several wars were to follow this war including the mithridatic wars and the slave wars. Eventually Julius Caesar came into power and after him Octavian. The corruption continued through the line of emperors there was bribery and assassinations trying to gain political power. This along with wars and expansion lead to the western empires fall.
The tribes that were involved with the fall of the Roman empire are the Goths, Visigoths and Vandals. There were others such as: Frank, Angles, Alamanni, and Saxons. These tribes basically wrecked havoc everywhere because they were against the Roman empire, they are rebels to put in simple terms. They would raid towns and create many uproars trying to bring the empire