How Did Rome Have An Centralized Government

The Romans and Greeks both have different centralized governments. The Greeks have several methods of governing such as, monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, and aristocracy. Monarchy is rule by only one man and oligarchy is rule by a few people who are selected. Aristocracy are rulers that are from a class of well-born families. Lastly, democracy is a group of people from the country elected into power. The Roman’s have a different centralized government because they are an empire unlike the Greeks, which are city-states. An empire only have one emperor and the empire is pass down from generation to generation, but then as the Roman empire grew vastly it had to divide in half as eastern Rome and western Rome.

The Athens was a Greek city-state with a democracy. In Athens all men were treated as equals and any man was able to participate in the government. Unlike in Sparta where it was ruled by two leaders, but there was also twenty eight members in the “council of elders” that limited the two leader’s power. Those men were chosen from the highest social classes such as the aristocracy. These two are both Greek city-states, but both have a very different centralized government system.

They were a mix of democracy and republic because they took the ideas from ancient Greece. In the Roman government there used to be chief officials that was elected by citizens. There are just only two chief officials, but they would only governed for a year and if they didn't live up to expectations, the chief officials could of been kick out of office. As Rome expanded, many men wanted to join the government and those men decided that there should be only one ruler. The Romans began with a democracy and aristocracy, but ended up as a