Key word is WAS. After Julius Cesar crossed the Rubicon against the orders of the Roman Senate, it became an Empire. But it was never a representative republic, it was a class tiered society, with a free middle class, and an enslaved bottom rung of captives from all over the Roman world.
Rome was a Republic.
Key word is WAS. After Julius Cesar crossed the Rubicon against the orders of the Roman Senate, it became an Empire. But it was never a representative republic, it was a class tiered society, with a free middle class, and an enslaved bottom rung of captives from all over the Roman world.