How Did Julius Caesar Changed The History Of The World

“Alea iacta est”. With those words Julius Caesar crossed the River Rubicon in northern Italy and forever changed the history of the world. Rolling the die was exactly what Caesar was doing when he decided to challenge the authority of the Roman Republic that until now he had served. While it is easy to give specific dates as to when the government shifted to Caesar’s ‘Dictator for Life’ role, as well as for when his nephew Octavian (Augustus) received his new name and new titles of Caesar/Emperor of Rome, Princeps, and others. These are often seen as the death roughs of the Roman Republic, as if the republic had been strong and united and that out of nowhere it suddenly came to an end. But reality and what some people believe are two different
For the most part this was used in an effort to pass an agrarian law to provide land for Pompey’s veterans and also try to relieve the congested population of Rome. Unfortunately for the triumvirate, their opposition in the senate successfully elected Bibulus as Caesar’s consular colleague (co-consul) for that year. He, of course, was opposed to the passage of the law and tried to stop its passage. Caesar was not one to take opposition lightly and with Bibulus’ attempt to stop him in the senate successful, Caesar decided to take the law straight to the comitia. Originally Caesar had promised that the land used to pay the veterans would be only land brought legally onto the market, not any of the land in Campania. Campania of course was very fertile, well positioned land around the city of Rome itself but was also currently leased by some of the more wealthy citizens from the state itself. After the passage of the first agrarian bill was forced through the senate, a second Companion Law was made a few weeks later. The Companion Law acquired the public lands in northern and central Campania and gave them to some of Pompey’s