... was the conquering of Gaul. Some of his other achievements include, lower class politician, introduced laws against extortion, publication of the proceedings of the Senate, and reorganization of the taxes. During the Social War his Uncle Marius massacred all of his enemies, had himself elected consul, and then dies ... was pardoned and he remarried Pompei, who was the granddaughter of Sulla. In 68BC Caesar was elected questor and obtained a seat in the Senate. Caesar supported Pompey and helped him against the Mediterranean pirates, later ended up in command of the war against King Mithr...

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... . He used borrowed money to provide for the amount of entertainment to create his popularity. The way that Caesar saw it was that since the Senate was not in favor of him, he would focus on the population that he could manipulate to gain votes. When Caesar came into power, he ... began making his own laws without the permission of the Senate. This became a threat on the Roman Republic. Many tried to oppose Caesar, but he gained a lot of supporters during elections that the ones who opposed him would have to ... rode through Rome in "Triumph." He became dictator and Rome's borders were st...

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... he learned how to fight. At 15, he became interested in politics. He had a tough childhood, because he was epileptic and very vain. Caesar was admitted to the lifelong Senate after being a soldier for a number of years. The elite didn't accept him, so he turned to campaign for the poor. Caesar became the supreme priest, but he wanted ... to be higher in the Senate, so he joined together with two wealthy Romans, Crassus and Pompey. With these two as friends, he became consul. One year later, he became a governor of Roman territory. Caesar started many battles so he could say he had many t...

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... - Power In William Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar, a group of men conspire to assassinate Caesar; a man they feel will destroy the Roman Empire if he is given such power. They feel he is not worthy of being an emperor. They are worried about the corruptive abuse ... Julius Caesar shows his desire for ultimate power and loss of judgement when he decides to go to the capital and meet with the senate after Decius convinces him that the senate is thinking about awarding him the crown. This is not true but a ploy to lead Caesar to his death. Decius" sways ... Calphurnia that the people of ...

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... too much power and that if he became the king of Rome he would become corrupt and use his powers to create a bad society. The senate resented his actual position that was shown in the sixty member conspiracy which Marcus Brutus had organized to kill him. On the Ides of March , ... two days before he was due to leave Rome on his great eastern expedition, he was stabbed to death at a meeting of the senate in Pompey's new theater. He fell dead at the foot of Pompey's statue. Pompey was avenged, as well as Bibulus and Cato. After a provocative funeral ... and "divus Julius," or divine Juliu...

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... to what it is today. As a young man he entered the roman political life. He believed in Rome and tried to make the empire great. When he was 42 years old he got his first break as governor ... Gallic tribes. Caesar's forces or army was seriously outnumbered to the Gallic tribes. Even though they were outnumbered he completely defeated the Gallic tribes and became a roman hero all through The Roman Empire. Some citizens of Rome do not believe that he was a hero at all. Caesar made many enemies while he conquered the Gaul's. Several people thought ... make right decisions. If you look at...

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... military man. However, when considering all the underlying evidence, it seems that Marius used war as a means to gain political power. His real devotion was to become powerful in the Roman political scene rather than becoming successful in the military. However, Marius was not born into a noble family and hence did not have much access to politics in Rome, so gaining ... and proscribed his political opponents. Now that he had supreme power over Rome, he enacted a series of reforms to put control of the state firmly in the hands of a larger Senate. He arranged that the number of senators...

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