The 27 BCE settlement is often described by historians as marking the beginning of which system of government?
The full restoration of the pre-Caesar Republic exactly as it had existed before 60 BCE
The Principate, a system of one-man rule presented under republican forms✓Правильный ответ
A revival of the Second Triumvirate under formal law
The Roman monarchy of the regal period before the Republic
Объяснение
Historians call the system beginning in 27 BCE the Principate because one ruler held effective supreme power while retaining republican offices and forms. This arrangement was neither a genuine restoration of the earlier Republic nor a renewed triumvirate or revival of Rome's ancient kingship.