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Jiang's phrase for Rome after conquest: an empire whose political form remains a republic.
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imperial republic
Jiang's phrase for Rome after conquest: an empire whose political form remains a republic.
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By 146 BCE, Rome had become an imperial republic: an empire in substance but a republic in governmental form, creating a contradiction.
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The old Roman values of piety, liberty, and republica became problems once Rome's imperial wealth and conquered land changed the incentives of republican life.
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Jiang says Caesar grew up inside the contradiction of the imperial republic and saw himself as destined to save the Republic through reform and restored stability.
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"...become a contradiction. Okay? The contradiction is this. It is an imperial republic. Okay? It is an empire now, but its form of government..."
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"...this conflict. Right? He grew up in a time of the imperial republic, a contradiction. And he saw himself as the man of destiny..."
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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