Ancient Rome and the Events of the Late Republic (end of the Republic), you will create a timeline of major events that led to the end of the Republic. Your timeline should have at least 7 events. 200 CE: The rise of populist or democratic sentiments and political philosophy. Rome was not a democracy, although it was a Republic. By the 2nd century CE, populist tribunes started to make waves on the Roman political scene. These populist tribunes were mirrored by the uprisings by local governments and communities in Roman-acquired territories throughout the vast empire. With such a vast empire, and such a relatively weak method of centralized governance, it became increasingly impossible to achieve harmony and authoritative rule. It was not as if Rome usurped idyllic ways of life, so much as populist leaders did recognize the need to start "reclaiming public land and putting landless poor citizens back on land," ("Fall of the Roman Republic," n.d.).

Concurrent with the rise of populist and democratic sentiments was the simultaneous rise of populist armies. Rome fancied itself to be in control of all local political and economic leaders but in fact, local armies remained more fiercely loyal to the leaders they had trusted long before, who spoke the same language and believed in the same things. Rome was a colonizing power -- the hegemon that could not be trusted. Therefore, Rome gradually realized that it lacked the trust of local leaders and most importantly local citizens.

2. 211 CE: Septimus Severus dies.

The Roman expansion into Britain was among the most ambitious of its geo-political campaigns. Although...

"Septimius Severus (ruled 193-211), after fighting bloody civil wars to establish his power, managed to extend Roman possessions in Mesopotamia, but was occupied in turning back a tide of barbarian invaders in northern Britain when he died in York.
By this point in the Roman history timeline, the concept of maintaining order and discipline in local regions seemed impossible to actually execute. Rome simply became too big for its britches. Civil wars and local skirmishes became commonplace, as did economic and political corruption. The military remained powerful, but it was also spread thin.

3. 290 CE: Restructuring the Empire

After the obvious shift away from subservience toward local leadership, the political, social, and economic leaders in local territories governed by Rome started to challenge Roman authority by the first several centuries CE. The restructuring of the Roman Empire was one of the death blows to its power. "Major reorganization of the empire was undertaken by Diocletian (ruled 284-305), who formally divided Roman territory into a Western Empire and an Eastern Empire, each administered by an Augustus (senior emperor) and a junior Caesar (subordinate emperor) -- a system known as the Tetrarchy." The Tetrarchy was a sensible solution to a major political problem but the Tetrarchy also failed to accomplish the overarching goals…