Review for Crawford's ROMAN RE

The author Michael Crawford wrote the book The Roman Republic to offer an interpretation about the Roman Empire. This was done to educate the reader about how Rome gained its greatness and became the military and cultural center of the world at that time. He wanted to inform the readers about how the Roman Empire grew from one city tribe, to dominate the Italian peninsula, and finally to conquer the Mediterranean coast. This conquest led …

…and slaves when a territory would be conquered. This did have a negative effect though. ''As the empire expanded it became harder for the lower class to gain access to these rewards, and the competition between the upper class and lower class became more intense''(Crawford 1). This suggests that people were not getting what they though was their fair share of the rewards. This could lead to loyalties being questioned and discontemptment of the people.