Negative Impact On Roman Society

Roman society, overall, was negatively impacted by Roman expansion around the time period of 200 B.C.E. to 200 C.E., the people of Rome eventually becoming rather arrogant due to reasons associated with power. Just within about three centuries, the Romans managed to conquer a huge amount of land, people, and wealth. Consequently, the society suffered as more and more people, more specifically the wealthy, gained more power and riches and treated the “lower” people unequally.
It was emphasized by both Cato the Elder, a Roman senator, and Varro, a Roman scholar, two people of two different centuries, that Romans who worked hard and diligently in the farm seemed to be all-round better people and fighters than those who worked in business and entertainment-related things inside the city walls. It seemed that as more land was being conquered by the Romans, the more people either took to working inside the walls or became soldiers. However, Roman soldiers instead began to show lack of true sense of value in fighting for their …show more content…
Slave revolts began to occur. For example, on the island of Sicily, the oppressed had had enough of the mistreatment and staged an uprising against the higher class Romans. Thousands of people were killed in this uprising, wealthy and suffering alike. Despite the slaves always being treated unequally, could not see the inequality occurring within the Roman society. This was not just the Romans who had all the wealth; others from later generations, such as Paulus Orosius, sided with the rich. Orosius was a Christian historian and even from a later, more reasonable perspective, he could only victimize the rich, which seems to be a recurring problem throughout history. So if a Christian historian observing the uprising from centuries after it occurred did not see the problem, then how could the Romans from the period see it when they had so much money and