USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 27 BC the Senate and People of Rome made Octavian princeps ("first citizen") with proconsular imperium, thus beginning the Principate (the first epoch of Roman imperial history, usually dated from 27 BC to 284 AD), and gave him the title Augustus ("the venerated").

Detailed explanation-2: -Imperial Rome describes the period of the Roman Empire from 27 B.C.E. to C.E. 476. At its height in C.E. 117, Rome controlled all the land from Western Europe to the Middle East. The first Roman emperor was Augustus Caesar, who came to power after the assassination of Julius Caesar, his great-uncle.

Detailed explanation-3: -Though the Roman Republic stood for several centuries, tensions within the government began to tear it apart. Civil wars started between groups with different loyalties, which brought about the transformation of the republic into an empire.

Detailed explanation-4: -Families, gods, and force. These are time-tested methods by which empires tax and control their subjects, particularly their conquered peripheries. It’s remarkable just how well these methods have stood the test of time.