20.8k views
2 votes
20 Points

509 BCE, the Roman Republic is formed - WHERE does the word ‘republic’ come from and what does it mean in Latin?

1 Answer

5 votes

The Roman Republic describes the period in which the city-state of Rome existed as a republican government (from 509 B.C. to 27 B.C.), one of the earliest examples of representative democracy in the world.

User Yuqizhang
by
5.3k points