let's settle this which was better, rome as a republic

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Republic : 482 years
Empire: 1480 years

Seems like an easy pick

>>3116259
The republican system failed to govern an empire. It is not a coicindence that the republic began its long decline following the anexation of North Africa and Greece.

>>3116259
Monarchy obviously

Republic because it was the one that took over most of the territory.

Sure the empire intentionally stopped conquering (Augustus's orders), but if the generals spent more time conquering other people's territory like in the late republican period and not their own territory like in the late imperial one they would probably not have fell.

>>3116259

Rome was at its best as an irrelevant Etruscan vassal.

>>3116259
The Republic is what made Rome mighty, they turned a little city into the mighty war machine that conquered an empire. Citizens doing their sacred duty toward the country.
The Empire was just a joke, decadent fucks squandering away the fortune of their ancestors, in the end even turning away from the old gods. Caesar deserved to die under the senates knifes.

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The Empire was more fashionable

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>>3117611
That's some sharp edge you got there.

>>3116303
>>3117614
Greeks are nice, but Roman only by name, they don't really count.

>>3116259
>which was better, rome as a republic or empire?
yes