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.
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.