amount of money in donations and the public works projects he started and worked on in his reign. Before the reign of Augustus‚ Rome was still a Republic and in a state of civil wars because of the doings of consuls and senators Gaias Marius and Lucius Sulla starting in 88 BC‚ when Marius made the movement for land ownership to not be a requirement to be in the Roman army. Although it was a good short term plan‚ it led to devastating consequences. After the urban poor males joined the army‚ the patricians
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In the time of the agricultural age‚ two civilizations arose out of the plenteous food and raging waters. These two early civilizations were Mesopotamia and Egypt. Although many similarities can be drawn between the two‚ they each proved to be very different from each other in social‚ political‚ and religious systems as well as their stability and defeat. Although the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations paved the way modern civilizations‚ they have more differences that are illustrated in
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political goals . He became the head of his family at the age of 16 after the death of his father. One year later‚ he was designated as the new high priest of Jupiter for which he had to marry a patrician girl. So‚ he Lucius Cinna after breaking up his engagement with a plebeian girl. Sulla‚ the dictator of Rome‚ sent Caesar to exile for being the supporter of Marius. So‚ he was posted to Cilicia as a military assistant to a provincial governor where he won the Civic Crown. Later‚ Caesar left army but
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SCIPIO Africanus 236 - 184 BC Roman General Publius Cornelius Scipio‚ The Elder‚ was a Roman general who fought the Carthagian armies in Spain and defeated them. Then he invaded Africa from Sicily. This act caused Hannibal to leave Italy and return to Africa to fight Scipio. In 202 BC Scipio defeated Hannibal at Zama. Carthage capitulated and had to surrender her war fleet. For his victory in North Africa Scipio was called Africanus Major. Until the rise of Julius Caesar‚ Scipio Africanus
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his father’s protest against Roman control of Macedonia send him to jail‚ Polybius was deported to Rome as a hostage‚ however because he was a son of nobility‚ he was allowed to stay in the high classed house of Lucius Aemilius Paulus. There he was employed to tutor the two sons of Lucius Aemilius. He was allowed to leave Rome after 17 years but Polybius wanted to stay instead as he became loyal to the Roman Republic. He became close friends with one of his younger students now the Roman military
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There were three Punic or Carthaginian Wars is Roman history. These were between 264 and 146 BC. These wars were the first great wars of Roman expansion outside Italy. The enemy of Rome had a large empire that stretched along the coast of North America and southern Spain and some parts of Sicily. This empire was known as Carthage. The purpose of these wars was to decide which power would become the dominant force around the Mediterranean Sea. The first Punic War lasted from 264-241 BC. It was
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his journey of becoming the Julius Caesar still spoken of today. And soon Caesar was nominated the new High Priest of Jupiter‚ and married to Cornelia‚ daughter of Lucius Cinna a wealthy and influential member of the Populare. As the political heads of the Roman Republic began to sense the rise of the Populare ideology‚ the ruler Sulla began to purge his enamines‚ stripping Caesar of his High Priest of Jupiter position and taking his wife’s dowry. With no means of supporting his family Julius Caesar
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enraged when he heard that marius was coming to Africa he did not want to meet with him. He was angry and jealous of his fame while he had to stay and fight. He was also angry at the way Marius treated Jugurtha. Mariuses Bad Karma finally kicked in and Sulla didn’t let Marius complete the final victory and get all the fame. This is what happened to Metellus too. Jugurtha was crippled with his nation and seeked refuge with his son in law and his son in law mailed Marius and said he was willing to surrender
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The Second Triumvirate 43BC-36BC MAIN POINTS: 1. Octavian attempts to secure his inheritance 2. Octavian’s Temporary Collaboration with the republicans 3. Octavian’s first consulship 4. Octavian and Anthony join forces 5. Creation of the Second Triumvirate 6. Formation of a body to run the state 7. Beat the liberators 8. Then‚ divided the empire‚ Anthony the West and Octavian the East 9. However‚ tensions quickly arising Octavian attempts to secure
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Julius Caesar‚ born 100 B.C.E. in Rome to the impoverished patrician Julian Clan‚ knew controversy at an early age. Nephew to Popular Gaius Marius‚ he was earmarked by the Optimate dictator Sulla for prosciption after his refusal to divorce his Popular wife‚ Cinna. Fleeing Rome‚ and not returning until after Sulla ’s resignation in 78 B.C.E‚ upon his return he gained a position as a pontificate‚ an important Roman priesthood. Slowly but surely throughout his lifetime he worked his way up the political
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