Ceasar brought order to Rome with his reforms.Ceasar started colonies where the landless can have land.Also Ceasar governed as an abslute ruler. Rome had a great military so they took control of many places. Octavius took control after Julius Ceasar's death and stoped a civil war.
One of the reasons that it fell was the use of violence by the Roman elite. After the attempted reforms of the Gracchi brothers, Tiberius and Gaius in the 130s to 120s BCE, violence and bribery became endemic in the system. Tiberius and Gaius were murdered by mobs controlled by the senatorial elite after the Gracchis use of novel constitutional methods. The Republic (not the empire) came to and end when one Republican statesman became in effect a monarch, Octavian, later to become the first Roman Emperor Augustus.
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