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Pompey And Crassus Political Career
1,119 wordsThe formation of the First Triumvirate took place because of the political motives and the personal motives of the three ruthlessly ambitious power brokers in Rome. These men required the co-operation of the other two in order to further their political careers. During the time of the First Triumvirate many extraordinary powers where obtained and in some cases these where unprecedented. There are some key factors that have to be considered towards the break down of the Triumvirate. The most powe...
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Political Career Three Men
506 wordsH 2 > 3 paragraphs, why did Caesar, Pompey and Crassus need the (amicittia) First Triumvirate. Crassus motives for the need for the First Triumvirate according to Scullard are as follows, Crassus supported a request from a company of tax-gatherers that the Senate should adjust a bad bargain which they had made in contracting for the taxes of Asia. His supporters had found out that Asia had been economically raped due to the Mithradatic wars, where Asia was sandwiched. Cato, basically tur...
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B C Caesar Returned To Rome
1,137 wordsJulius Caesar: General in Gaul Julius Gaius Caesar was a great Roman general and statesman who laid the foundations of the Roman imperial system. Born in Rome on July 12 or 13, 100 b. c. , Caesar belonged to the prestigious Julia clan; yet from early childhood his life was plagued with controversy. His uncle by marriage was Gaius Marius, leader of the Populares. This party supported agrarian reform and was opposed by a reactionary senatorial faction known as the Optimates. Marius was seven times...
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Returned To Rome Pompey And Crassus
1,432 wordsBorn in Rome on July 12 or 13, 100 BC, Caesar belonged to the prestigious Julian clan; yet from early childhood he knew controversy. His uncle by marriage was Gaius Marius, leader of the Populares. This party supported agrarian reform and was opposed by the reactionary Optimate's, a senatorial faction. Marius was seven times consul (chief magistrate), and the last year he held office, just before his death in 86 BC, he exacted a terrifying toll on the Optimate's. At the same time he saw to it th...
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Caesar Rome Marius
244 wordsBorn in Rome on July 12 or 13, 100 BC, Caesar belonged to the prestigious Julian clan; yet from early childhood he knew controversy. His uncle by marriage was Gaius Marius, leader of the Populares. This party supported agrarian reform and was opposed by the reactionary Optimates, a senatorial faction. Marius was seven times consul (chief magistrate), and the last year he held office, just before his death in 86 BC, he exacted a terrifying toll on the Optimates. At the same time he saw to it that...
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Returned To Rome Julius Caesar
746 wordsJulius Caesar Perhaps no other man in the history of the world symbolizes military and political strength as much as does Gaius Julius Caesar. This man became a legend for his military exploits and an almost global setting, his political manipulations which covered decades of cycles which covered power and loss of power, and his personal life which to have been played in the most melodramatic and theatrical manner. It is Caesar whose life, betrayal, and death which have been immortalized in hist...
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B C Caesar Julius Caesar
1,221 words? Vini, Julius Caesar? Julius Caesar? ? Vini, Vidi, Vici? (The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations 10 - 3 - 99) which in English means? I came, I saw, I conquered. ? This was Julius Caesar? s motto when he was a soldier and invading different provinces. For this quote to still be recognized today is a compliment to Caesar? s importance and fame at the time. Julius Caesar is considered by some historians to be Rome? s greatest genius. He changed a chaotic, old system of government into the basis fo...
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