One of the reasons that it fell was the use of violence by the Roman elite.
Another key factor was that Roman republican generals such as Marius ,
Sulla, Pompey and Gaius Julius Caesar had in effect,
private armies that looked to them for retirement packages and to defend their interests
This was all set against the massive expansion of the empire from the Punic wars onward - a growth in both territory and wealth and the dislocations that this caused
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