![]() ![]() Even Pompey became jealous and soon Caesar and Pompey became rivals. Many of the leaders were jealous of Caesar and his following. Politics in Rome became increasingly hostile while Caesar was in Gaul. He gained the respect and honor from his army and soon was considered alongside Pompey as the greatest general in the Roman army. He was a very effective governor and general. At the end of his year as consul, Caesar became governor of the province of Gaul.Īs governor of Gaul, Caesar was in charge of four Roman legions. The consul was like a president, but there were two consuls and they only served for one year. Consul was the highest ranking position in the Roman Republic. ![]() Caesar was an excellent speaker and the people of Rome loved him.Īt the age of 40 Julius Caesar was elected to consul. He made allies with powerful men such as the general Pompey the Great and the wealthy Crassus. He quickly rose up the ranks in the Roman government. ![]() He was now a military hero from his years in the army. When Sulla died, Caesar returned to Rome. Caesar joined the army and left Rome in order to avoid Sulla and his allies. The current dictator of Rome, Sulla, was enemies with both Caesar's uncle Marius and Caesar's father in-law Cinna. Young Caesar soon found himself in the middle of a power struggle between two factions in the government. At the age of seventeen he married Cornelia, the daughter of a powerful politician in Rome. He became the head of the family and was responsible for his mother Aurelia and his sister Julia. These were important skills he would need as a leader of Rome.Ĭaesar's father died when he was sixteen years old. He also learned about Roman law and how to speak in public. He was taught by a private tutor named Marcus Antonius Gnipho. His full name was Gaius Julius Caesar.Īt around the age of six, Gaius began his education. His parents were well-off, but they weren't rich by Roman standards. He was born to an aristocratic family that could trace their bloodlines back to the founding of Rome. Piece by historical piece, we'll delve into the events and people that shaped not just an era, but the history, and future, of an entire planet.Julius Caesar was born in Subura, Rome in the year 100 BC. From the foundations as a Republic through to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, from the great conquerors to the conquered tribes and peoples such as the Iceni tribe led by Boudicca. In this site, we will explore the development of the Roman Empire and the events that built it. Even Roman food, such as the popular fish sauce garum, has influenced what we eat and how we eat it. Her final religious faith, Christianity, spread like wildfire throughout the highly connected system of roads and intermingled cultures of the western world. Her language, Latin, while for all intents and purposes lies dormant and unspoken, forms the basis or penetrates the deepest fibers of many modern tongues. Roman numerals continue to be used in many different areas of present-day life, including clock and watch faces and legal documents. ![]() Her monuments still stand millennia later, awing and inspiring us. Today, Roman law and the role and structure of government forms the basis of several modern democracies. The fall of Roman Empire, and the centuries that came to be known as the Dark Ages that followed illustrates the awesome responsibility, reach and impact of the Empire. One super powered nation, encompassing thousands of cultures kept order, stability and civilization in an ancient world fraught with turmoil. Rome's extraordinary achievements and the unparalleled string of influential people shaped the whole of Europe and even the rest of the world. In a few more centuries, the Roman Empire's might reached as far north as Britain, east to Persia, and in the south it encompassed the whole of Northern Africa. In the matter of just a few centuries, Rome grew from a very small village in central Italy to the absolute dominant power of the entire Italian peninsula. It represents both the glorious achievement, and at times contemptible, behavior of mankind. The greatest empire the earth has ever known is more than just a collection of facts and figures. ![]()
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