How Did Imperial Rome Have An Imperial Power

From the time period 600 B.C.E to 600 C.E the world had many large empires controlling lots land, and two controlled their empires similarly.One of these is the Roman Empire who originally was a republic that had a large bureaucracy that made the decisions, but later on Caesar Augustus took over complete control and claimed divine power. When Caesar Augustus took over the bureaucracy lost all its power and the emperor gained that power. The other empire is the Gupta of India which was a not very centralized government but had a emperor that claimed divine power. The Gupta also did not have a very large bureaucracy like the Romans. The Roman Empire and the Gupta Empire both had a emperor at the center with a small bureaucracy, but the Gupta gave some power to their local officials.

The Romans and Gupta’s emperor had the most control in their government because they did not use a large bureaucracy. The rulers in the Roman and Gupta Empire told their people their power was given to them by the gods so everyone would follow their rule. But the Gupta was not largely centralized so their emperor did not control almost all the power. Unlike Caesar Augustus and his successors who held almost all the power in the empire. The Roman emperors would put their faces on the coins or built statues of them all over the empire to promote their power so everyone followed them.
They both had a emperor claiming divine authority, a small bureaucracy, and divided into provinces. But in the Gupta they gave their local officials in the provinces power, and the Roman emperors still had complete control over the provinces. The Roman emperors even put statues of them in the provinces to remind the people who controlled them. Finally, the Roman and Gupta empires had very similar platforms to their political control, but their actual control differed in a couple