... invaded, conquered everything, and drove Antiochus III to Asia Minor. The Roman army chased him, and conquered the territories he had in Asia Minor. Gaius Julius Caesar was born on July 13, 100 BC to a prestigious Roman family. His uncle was Gaius Marius, the consul andleader of the agrarian reform movement. In ... escaped to Egypt, where he sought shelter with King Ptolemy XIII. Ptolemy's advisors warned him against the wrath of Caesar, so he killed Pompey and sent Caesar his head. In 46 BC, Caesar was named the ten year dictator of the state. He promptly renamed himself dictator for li...

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... Minor, gets himself appointed dictator 'to save the state'. His reign of terror lasts until his retirement in 80 BC. In January 49 BC Julius Caesar made the famous night crossing of the River Rubicon. This was the historic boundary between Italy and the provinces that no general was allowed to ... four years and raged across Italy, Spain, Africa, Greece, Asia and Egypt. His opponent was Pompey the Great, a former ally but now Caesar's political enemy. Together Caesar and Pompey, two of the greatest generals Rome had ever produced, had brought vast stretches of territory under Roman domini...

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... of the Greek empire during the first century B.C., the Romans began to expand their territorial holdings. In 63 B.C., Roman forces under Pompey, a highly successful general and son-in-law of Julius Caesar, captured Jerusalem. In 40 B.C., the Roman senate appointed Herod, later known as Herod The Great, as the "client king" of Judea. Herod the Great ruled Judea for the next 36 ... ...

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