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However, he knew that even with his great power that the Romans would not accept him as a monarch as they were deeply attached to the Republican traditions and values. Augustus devised a clever strategy he outwardly observed the forms of a Republican government, while at the same time gaining more and more control of the system. Tacitus and other Romans believed that Augustus' approach ended the Roman Republic but replaced it with something superior, namely the Imperial system.<ref> Tacitus. The Annals. 5. 4</ref> He continued this policy for many years and he slowly established the imperial system. The victory over Anthony provided Augustus with the resources and means to begin the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
====What happened to Egypt==after Augustus became Emperor? ==
[[File: Castro Battle of Actium.jpg |300px|thumb|left| A seventeenth-century painting of the battle of Actium]]
One of the most important outcomes of the civil war between Anthony and Augustus was the absorption of Egypt into the Roman Empire. Egypt’s, Ptolemaic rulers had long been dependent on the Romans and had become under the increasing control of Rome.<ref> Plutarch. Life of Augustus. 7</ref> Augustus was to formally annex Egypt , and he ended the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty which had successfully governed the kingdom for almost three centuries. Augustus turned Egypt into a Roman province and ensured that the wealth of the province would benefit Rome.<ref> Bowman, Alan Keir. 1996. Egypt After the Pharaohs: 332 BC–AD 642; From Alexander to the Arab Conquest. 2nd ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press), p. 245</ref> He established a system whereby Egyptian corn was used to feed the teeming metropolis of Rome, under the system of the Annona. This was to help approach helped stabilize the situation in Rome and did much to ensure the ''Pax Romana''. The first emperor was aware of the critical importance of Egypt to the Roman Empire and he decreed that a knight and not a senator should be governor of the province. He was afraid that if a senator had control of the province that he could use its wealth to rebel. Augustus ' system was to ensure that Egypt was to remain at peace and a crucial part of the Roman Empire.<ref> Bowman, p. 217</ref>
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