... they had their own interest at heart, this system would eventually fall as well. Then shortly after the best republic leader, the famous Julius Caesar, was assonated, the empire was established. After much battle and coercion, a leader was finally chosen. Hence, the Roman Empire was born ... word "Kaiser" as well as the Russian word "Czar" are from the name Caesar and mean ruler. Today a large number of countries are Republic, styled after the ancient Romans. Individual Research Julius Caesar Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman whose dictatorship was essential in Rome's shift...

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... 's overnorship of Britain, Including the defeat of the Scots at the battle of Mons Graupius and the circumnavigation of Britain. The other piece of literacy evidence about Roman Britain is Julius Caesar's account in which he describes two trips to the island. The brief visit in 55 B.C to the Kent coast and his return in greater force the next year when he ... to some extent Tacitus's piece is less biased. Tacitus was anxious to preserve the memory of his father-in-law he wrote in a way that was not as biased as Caesar who wanted to justify his actions to the senate of Rome. With this in ...

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... unable of ruling the massive Roman Empire, so he developed a new governing system called the tetrarchy. Each region was ruled by an Augustus and was assisted by a Chief Lieutenant called a Caesar. The division made the empire easier to govern, but over time the territories stopped adequately working together to combat outside threats, and often quarreled over resources and military support. Diocletian ... of the Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus. This event usually marks the official end of the Western Roman Empire. Some historians and scholars date the end of the western kingdom, when ...

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