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The first hundred years BC was a watershed for the development of the Roman status. It was a century seen as a near-incessant warfare and politics strife in Rome, proof that a new form of administration was necessary to rule over its new comprehensive conquests. It had been becoming clear to the traditional ruling top notch that the traditional armed service superpower was starting to go through an uneasy transition from republic to imperial vitality. Central in this change were the actions of the First Triumvirate: an alliance between the most effective men in Rome. The Triumvirate was made up of Gnaeus Pompey Magnus, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and Gaius Julius Caesar, and mutually these individuals blended their vast politics influence to reduce the Roman Senate to only charade. Mutually, they eked out a location for themselves at the head of the Roman status. Through their efforts, Gaul, Spain and Syria came up firmly into the Roman fold. However, like all things true to the Roman Republic, the First Triumvirate was not invulnerable to outdoor coercion and manipulation. Soon, it too started out to show symptoms of corruption, and each man began to suspect the other of looming betrayal. These misgivings would seep through the alliance until the poison had effectively turned the associates of the First Triumvirate against one another. The political tension, and the ensuing warfare, would fundamentally change the very cloth of the Roman status forever. Through the chaos of the Triumvirate, a fresh form of administration would take root: the Roman monarchy we now know as the Empire.
