| dc.description.abstract | The Social War was a conflict in the early first century BCE, between the Roman Republic, and its Italian military allies, who desired Roman citizenship, and when refused, rebelled against Roman hegemony. My thesis is that the Social War had dangerous consequences for the Roman Republic, which, when combined with a number of other issues the Republic was dealing with, made it more likely for the Republic to fall. In order to prove my hypothesis, I have gone through an extensive amount of material including both various primary sources and modern authors in order to analyse the connections and events between the Social War and the fall of the Republic as closely as possible. I will go through the sheer number of citizens in the Roman Republic after the Social War, how the Roman census was taken, and how the Italians were registered and enrolled into the Roman state. As well as the oppression and exploitation of the Italian peoples and how Roman views of the Italians and Italian enfranchisement changed and evolved. I will also go through how the Roman government actually worked, including how the Romans voted, the assemblies and tribes and how democratic they were. As well as the reforms the militarization of Roman society and the financial incentives of its militarism, as well as the sheer chaos and political violence throughout the first century BCE and the utter lack of good solutions offered by the political system and its actors. | eng |