... Lucretia who subsequently committed suicide. This ended the Etruscan Monarch period and made way for the Roman Republic. The two Consuls that were elected were the chief magistrates of the Roman State. The Comitia Centuriata (Assembly of Centuries) elected the two Consuls from the already existing Senate. The role of the Consuls was to create and present laws to the Comitia Centuriata. They ... fighting the Parthians at Carrhe in 53 BCE. In 49 BCE, Pompey was killed, along with his army, trying to defend the senatorial government from the betrayal of Julius. The Senate wanted Julius to ...

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... 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. In the meanwhile, the fine arts of Rome were also developing. There were no new fields of study produced but there were ... art of bookkeeping/writing. The United States government in commonly known as a democracy, but it's actually a Republic, almost identical to the Roman one. The Roman government was one of the most powerful ever, at one point ruling most of the civilized world. The term Caesar, originating from Ju...

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... simply retire as the greatest Roman of his time and the first man in Rome . What he asked from the senate was nothing compared to the bounty he had presented to them, but the senate declined to accommodate him. The reasons behind this unreasonable attitude of the senate cannot be easily explained, ... he needed, alone he could not muster enough clout to overcome the opposition of Cato and Bibulus. At this time another powerful Roman had similar problems with the senate. Marcus Crassus had been championing the cause of the Publicani, the companies which collected Rome's taxes in the provi...

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... but as a leader of Rome many flaws were seen in him. Caesar had grown to think only of himself and had lost interest in the care of Roman citizens. His own senate had no faith in him, they saw him as a terrible leader and a weak person. In Act 2 Scene II Cassius had saved Caesars life many ... also turned down the crown offered to him, something a tyrant would never do. He made most citizens happy, he did everything he could for them but the senate despised him for the power he had taken from them, resented what he was becoming growing more jealous as the days went on. Julius Caesar's mi...

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... the first kings on his mother's side and form the gods on his father's. Thereafter, Caesar was elected quaestor and obtained a seat in the Senate; he married Pompeia, a granddaughter of Sulla. Caesar supported Pompey and helped him get an extraordinary generalship against the Mediterranean pirates, later extended to ... really feared the advancing Romans, Most of the oppida, Gallic fortified town or stronghold, such as Cenabum, the main oppidum of Carnutes, had Roman traders who now lived there. The Romans didn't use violence to take over, they just sent in the traders who settled and ma...

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... of the five years of command voted to him by coming to a fresh agreement with Pompey and Crassus at Luca. The optimates in control of the senate, now awake to the immense increase in Caesar's personal power, wealth, and prestige, kept Pompey in Italy, allowing him to govern his Spanish provinces ... exile by prosecuting him in the courts either for bribery or for the use of force in politics. In Rome there was support in the senate for a negotiated compromise when Curio put forth the proposal by which Caesar would give up his military command and stand in person at the ... and influence...

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... of the five years of command voted to him by coming to a fresh agreement with Pompey and Crassus at Luca. The optimates in control of the senate, now awake to the immense increase in Caesar's personal power, wealth, and prestige, kept Pompey in Italy, allowing him to govern his Spanish provinces ... exile by prosecuting him in the courts either for bribery or for the use of force in politics. In Rome there was support in the senate for a negotiated compromise when Curio put forth the proposal by which Caesar would give up his military command and stand in person at the ... and influence...

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... of the five years of command voted to him by coming to a fresh agreement with Pompey and Crassus at Luca. The optimates in control of the senate, now awake to the immense increase in Caesar's personal power, wealth, and prestige, kept Pompey in Italy, allowing him to govern his Spanish provinces ... exile by prosecuting him in the courts either for bribery or for the use of force in politics. In Rome there was support in the senate for a negotiated compromise when Curio put forth the proposal by which Caesar would give up his military command and stand in person at the ... and influence...

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... of the five years of command voted to him by coming to a fresh agreement with Pompey and Crassus at Luca. The optimates in control of the senate, now awake to the immense increase in Caesar's personal power, wealth, and prestige, kept Pompey in Italy, allowing him to govern his Spanish provinces ... exile by prosecuting him in the courts either for bribery or for the use of force in politics. In Rome there was support in the senate for a negotiated compromise when Curio put forth the proposal by which Caesar would give up his military command and stand in person at the ... and influence...

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... popularity because of this and because he sided with those seeking power outside the circle of nobles, who at that time dominated the Roman senate. He also gained popularity with the Gauls in 68 BC by supporting them for Roman citizenship. Caesar became the governor of Spain in 61 BC after Crassus had helped pay his creditors after some financial issues. Military actions ... BC. Caesar introduced many reforms, such as limiting the distribution of free grain, founding citizen colonies, introducing the Julian calendar, and enlarging the senate. At the same time he reduced debts, changed t...

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... at the end of the five years of command by coming to a fresh agreement with Pompey and Crassus at Luca. The optimates in control of the senate were now awake to the immense increase in Caesar's personal power, wealth, and prestige, kept Pompey in Italy, allowing him to govern his Spanish provinces ... exile by prosecuting him in the courts either for bribery or for the use of force in politics. In Rome there was support in the senate for a negotiated compromise when Curio put forth the proposal by which Caesar would give up his military command and stand in person at the consular ... ...

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... of the five years of command voted to him by coming to a fresh agreement with Pompey and Crassus at Luca. The optimates in control of the senate, now awake to the immense increase in Caesar's personal power, wealth, and prestige, kept Pompey in Italy, allowing him to govern his Spanish provinces ... exile by prosecuting him in the courts either for bribery or for the use of force in politics. In Rome there was support in the senate for a negotiated compromise when Curio put forth the proposal by which Caesar would give up his military command and stand in person at the ... and influence...

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... . He was the one person who brought about the effective end of the Republic. From a noble but poor Roman family, Caesar made was first a soldier. As a member of the First Triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus, he was one of the most powerful men ... in Rome. He fought a great Civil War with Pompey for mastery of Rome. After building up an army in Gaul, Caesar marched against the Senate in 49 B.C.E., and defeated his Pompey at the battle of Pharsalus. As dictator of Rome, he started a lot of political and social reforms On the Ides of ... March, 44 B.C., he was assassinated by a conspiracy...

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The greatest warrior and emperor of Rome, Gaius Julius Caesar, died today, March 15th BCE, at about 10:00 a.m. Roman time, in the portico of the "Pompey the Great" theater. He was stabbed twenty-three times by at least sixty conspirators lead by Marcus Junius Brutus. It is being reported ... was released. His action proved his skill of dealing with pirates. In 72 BCE he was elected to the "Military Tribune". He was elected quaestor and achieved a seat in the Senate. In 60 BCE, he headed the first triumvirate - a loose coalition with Spain, Pompey and Crassus. With the help of them, he becam...

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