Understanding the Leadership Failures and Cruelty in the Roman Empire

Some are born into leadership and others are born with leadership skills. This held true for those who ran the Roman Empire. Some may argue that that the Roman Empire holds the title of being one of the greatest, most victorious empires in the history of the world, though what people often do not know is the fallacies that its leadership inquired. In 117 AD, at the peak of their conquest, power, and imperial nation, the Romans encompassed nearly 5 million square kilometers of land, though it certainly was quantity not quality. From exploitation and genocide to a lack of their own culture, and ideas of sexism and inequality, the Roman Empire was remarkably cruel to its people and ultimately, not beneficial to the world.

Slavery was a longstanding barbarity in the ancient Roman world. Slavery meant complete dominance over another individual. Slaves were present in the everyday life of Rome, from households, to the agricultural subdivision of the Roman Empire, as well as with a wide range of other services in Rome. Slavery was commonplace in the Roman culture, so second nature that slaves eventually became invisible to the rest of the world, and justice towards them was nowhere near a possibility. Children who were born to a slave mother were automatically enslaved.

Even if it may seem as if the Romans had a lot to brag about, their transfer of power was definitely not peaceful. What good does it do to have power when all that power is only an atrocity. Enslaving humans, attempting to annihilate groups of people, glorifying death, and being unequal within their own people only proves the point that their ultimatum was not beneficial to the rest of the world, as it negatively influenced it. Dominance over others does nothing more than imbed a lack of freedom, and this seems true for those living in the Roman