Rome And Roman Similarities

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When comparing the Roman Republic with the Roman Empire, there are many differences and similarities between the two and their time periods. The biggest difference between the Roman Republic and Roman empire, was that the Roman Republic was a "democratic" form of government, which is where the people decided how to run things, and the Roman Empire was an "autocracy" type of government where the Emperor decided on things. The Roman Republic. When comparing the similarities of the Roman Empire and the Roman Republic, they both owned the Italy peninsula, they both worshipped Roman gods, both had a senate, they exported wine and marble, spoke the Latin language, and they were both destroyed by civil war. The Roman Republic called senates patricians

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