The Roman Republic had a political system of elected consuls and senators, a social hierarchy divided between patricians and plebeians, and an agricultural economy dependent on slave labor. The Principate established by Augustus transitioned Rome from a republic to a monarchy while maintaining republican institutions, concentrating political power in the position of the princeps or emperor as the first among equals.
The Roman Republic had a political system of elected consuls and senators, a social hierarchy divided between patricians and plebeians, and an agricultural economy dependent on slave labor. The Principate established by Augustus transitioned Rome from a republic to a monarchy while maintaining republican institutions, concentrating political power in the position of the princeps or emperor as the first among equals.
The Roman Republic had a political system of elected consuls and senators, a social hierarchy divided between patricians and plebeians, and an agricultural economy dependent on slave labor. The Principate established by Augustus transitioned Rome from a republic to a monarchy while maintaining republican institutions, concentrating political power in the position of the princeps or emperor as the first among equals.