... 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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