> the article hints at that Unintentionally, perhaps. Really, this is an indication of the article's incoherence and sloppiness. It purports to be mostly about

> the article hints at that Unintentionally, perhaps. Really, this is an indication of the article's incoherence and sloppiness. It purports to be mostly about the aftermath of the collapse of the Western Empire in the 5th Century, and how this supposedly cleared the way for assorted awesome developments (five or six hundred years later). So the transition from Republic to Empire is irrelevant to the argument.