Crisis in Traditional Roman va
There was a great crisis in traditional Roman values during the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. After the Punic Wars the traditional values of Rome fell by the wayside for a new way of life that eventually led to the Roman Empire. The Cincinnatus image, rise of violence in political life, and making allies with those who were conquered were lost in this transformation. Gone was the Cincinnatus image of the Roman farmers trading their hoes for swords. Before the Punic Wars one had to own property in order to serve in the army. The soldiers in the Roman army would be farmers by day and soldiers by night. They would sow their crops, go to the front lines, and then come back in the fall to harvest the crops. Unfortunately for them, when they left their farms for the battlefields during the Punic Wars it was the last time they saw it. During the years of the Punic Wars Hannibal and his elephants ravaged the land beyond belief and destroyed the countryside farms. When the farmers returned home after the wars they found their farms totally destroyed and unsalvageable and were forced to sell their farms to the Senatorial Aristocracy. The aristocracy in turn setup laitfundias with their new land and u
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Approximate Word count = 1473
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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