How did The Roman Republic start Collapsing? - History of the Roman Empire - Part 7

How did The Roman Republic start Collapsing? - History of the Roman Empire - Part 7

Ever since the end of the Third Punic War, two things had been true about the Roman Republic: try as it might, it was plagued by military conflict, and, it was collapsing like a sandcastle under high tide with each strike of the sword. By the mid-first century BC, there was little hope left for the Republic as the Romans knew it. And one man, born at the turn of the century, would be the final piece in the crumbling puzzle