Roma was facing a political crisis, many senators and politicians were fighting to see who gains power of Rome and Octavian the son of Caesar become the sole ruler of Rome and saved everyone from more bloodshed. (from the civil war)
In the 1930s, many people began thinking Marx was right and that Communism was the wave of the future because the New York Stock Exchange crashed in 1929, fulfilling Marx's prediction of business booms and crashes.
