Althoug they brought great expansion and influence, they also badly eroded the farmers who constituted the Roman army, and largely replaced them with slaves captured during the war.
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This erosion of the farming class sowed the seeds of the Roman revolution. The army became comprised of the non-propertied class which looked to successful generals to get them property after wars, and these generals used this clientele to further their own position and ambitions. The civil wars went on spasmodicaly for a century until Augustus won control and reconstituted the political, social and economic structure of the empire.
