The Roman Empire surpassed it
I cannot find that figure. Provide a link? IAC, here is what happened to Rome. No rule of law. It was just a 1/2 way thing. Your entire family was murder over your dis-credit. No Roman paid taxes, so they had no skin in the game. The Senate was so fucked up, there had to be a Caesar, to hold it all together. But, they had no way to get one leader except thru violence. The first one went to the Senate to be murdered to make a statement. The second one had to chase down Brutus, Pompey and Antony, to get the job.
We learned about the rule of law from all that.
TIMELINE OF THE LATE ROMAN REPUBLIC
133 BC Tiberius Gracchus elected tribune in 133 BC.
123 BC Tiberius brother Gaius Gracchus elected tribune.
121 BC Gaius Gracchus murdered when he stood for election as tribune for a third term.
112 BC Roman Senate declares war on Numidia.
112 BC105 BC Jugurthine War.
late 110/early 109 BC Jugurtha defeats Roman army led by Aulus Postumus Albinus.
107 BC Marius elected consul.
105 BC Marius was elected consul.
104 BC100 BC Marius serves as consul for five successive terms.
104 BC Marius returns to Rome by January 1, and celebrates his triumph over Jugurtha.
9188 BC
Social War.
9186 BC
Debt deflationary crisis.
88 BC King Mithridates VI of Pontus (king from 120 BC to 63 BC) invades Asia Minor and causes the massacre of 80,000 Romans and Italians.
88 BC Lucius Cornelius Sulla (c. 138 BC78 BC) and Quintus Pompeius Rufus are consuls. Sulla invades Rome and defeats the populares.
8784 BC Sulla fights the Mithridatic war.
87 BC Marius and Cinna occupy Rome and kill their opponents. This was called the
Bellum Octavianum.
86 BC Gaius Marius dies on January 13.
8684 BC Rome dominated by Cinna.
83 BC Sulla ends war with Mithridates and marches on Rome.
8382 BC Civil war between Sulla and the party of Caius Marius the younger and Cinna.
82 BC Victory for Sulla at the Battle of the Colline Gate.
end of 82 BC/early 81 BC the Senate appoints Sulla
dictator legibus faciendis et reipublicae constituendae causa (dictator for the making of laws and for the settling of the constitution), without a term limit.
8280 BC Constitutional reforms of Sulla.
end of 81 BC Sulla
resigns his dictatorship.
80 BC Sulla
holds the consulship.
70 BC Pompey and Crassus elected consuls and
dismantle significant parts of Sullas constitution.
