Can we agree that the Roman Empire was a mistake? They should've stayed as a Republic

Can we agree that the Roman Empire was a mistake? They should've stayed as a Republic.

Bump.

Before Augustus: 100 years of civil wars and disasters.
After Augustus: 200 years of peace and prosperity.

>Augustus blunder at Teutoburg
>Caligula
>Nero
>Domitian
>Commodus
>literally everyone besides Septimius during the Severan dynasty
>crisis of the third century
>peace and prosperity

Ayy lmao

>After Augustus: 200 years of peace and prosperity
Kek you are so wrong.
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> Augustus blunder at Teutoburg
It was just 3 legions, m8, 3 times more Romans died in the battle at Colline Gate in 82 BC.
>Caligula
>Nero
>Domitian
>Commodus
They had no significant influence on the everyday life outside Rome itself. I mean, they were shit rulers, but you can't compare them with the Social War or with the Sulla's and Caesar's Civil Wars, which devastated Italy and the rest of the Mediterranean. I mean, how big is their total death toll, hundreds, maybe thousands killed, no cities razed, no regions devastated? It's like an average month during the late Republic.
>literally everyone besides Septimius during the Severan dynasty
>crisis of the third century
This was after 200 years after Augustus.

Domitian was a brutal but effective autocrat. And the disaster at Teutoburg was Varus' blunder not Augustus'.

IMO the practice of Emperors adopted for merit, as practiced during the reign of the Five Good Emperors, was the best system. The republic had become too corrupt and ineffective.

>Caesar's Civil Wars

Yes, because this totally didn't have anything to do with the establishment of the empire.

It was still a republican civil war, regardless of its effects, same goes for the Final war of the Roman Republic. I mean, the Empire could have been established back in 82 BC, if Sulla had desired so, had more time to live and had a proper heir. The problem wasn't some outside treats, the problem was Republic's inherent inability to function properly at the scale it achieved.

We wouldn't even be talking about them if they stayed a republic