Describe the transition from Roman Republic to Empire in the 1st century B.C.E.

This is a
great question. There are many things that can be stated. So, here are four points.

First, during the second century B.C., Rome faced some very difficult hardships. More
and more of its free citizens were in turn off land they did not possess.  The poor rose up in
revolt.  So, the Gracchi brothers, first Tiberius then Gaius, sought to redistribute land to the
poor from the...