The land was given to the wealthy citizens who rented or sold it at their own desire. ... d) Given the extravagance of Pompey's triumph, does this give you a better understanding of how the ambitions of prominent men could lead to conflict and ultimately civil war Pompey was a military leader of the Roman Republic known as Pompey the great. ... Pompey's triumph gives me a better understanding of how their ambitions can lead to war because of the attention they receive from the people. 3. ...

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Cassius plans to write letters to Brutus pretending to be citizens afraid of Caesar's ambition. ... When the conspirators find out, they flee out of the country forming their own armies. ... Then, he insists that Caesar ambition would have made him a tyrant and therefore, the Romans would have been his slaves. ...

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Philip II had ambitions of attacking Persia for having attacked Greece back in 480B.C, but was murdered by a Macedonia nobel. His successor, his son, would follow in footsteps with the same ambitions and was successful. ... Women considered citizens and were able to own land and go to court over land, but women did have much more limited rights than the men did. ...

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His ally in Pompey had turned against him but Caesar somehow had forced Pompey out of his own country also unknowingly having King Ptolemy kill a former client of his just to keep Julius Caesar happy shows the effect he had on the people. ... I feel that later in his reign he felt the desire to move further than just Rome, he later had grown the desire to conquer on past Rome also having the ambition to eventually control the world. ... This man became more worried about his own image over everything but luckily for Rome that would lead to its rise in power, the stronger he would get the stron...

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Its fall, basing from the records of history, can be traced backed into two major factors; the disunity of the patricians and their gluttonous pursuance of self ambition and the countless enemies of the empire gnawing at their doorsteps. ... It was a word of rendering oneself to the service of God and forgoing any worldly ambition. ... "The holy city the citizens of the earthly city prefer their own gods, not knowing that He is the God of gods, not of false, i.e., of impious and proud gods....

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With Antoninus's death and the uncertainty upon and new emperor (in this case two, a diarchy, for the first time in Rome's history), the Parthian monarch, Vologaeses III, struck rapidly, placed his own candidate on the Armenian throne, and inflicted severe setbacks to Roman forces sent to oppose him. ...

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The Roman Catholic Church was broken up by Protestantism, while in the Eastern Churches, many communities like the Armenians, Ethiopians, Russians and Italians set up their own Patriarchies. ... All believers worked hard for the extension of the Church considering their own life to be of no value. ...

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