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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Augustus abandoned his connection with the second triumvirate and claimed to re instate the republic and rule of the senate, culminating in his refusal of power in the great debate of 27 BC, as told in the Res Gestae, by which Augustus hoped to halt the ambitions of many senators who wanted a return to the republic and stop the senate from becoming a focus for opposition against himself. Augustus' own conservative attitudes helped to keep up the Republican Façade and the support of the senators. ... For a small period after his accession, Gaius did attempt to appease the senate, possibly...

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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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