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Julius Caesar's legions fought on the order of He's victorious, he's able to conquer these powerful Gallic tribes. Of Julius Caesar's allies, he becomes one of his opponents. Parthians, which breaks up this First Triumvirate, and Is killed, Crassus is killed while fighting the Great, who was the successor in Persia of the AchaemenidĮmpire, and while fighting the Parthians, he Of the Seleucids or the successor of Alexander the The Parthian-Persian Empire, they're the successors You might remember, the Parthians, this is now Off over here in the East fighting the Parthians Remember, was part of this First Triumvirate, he is In 53, yeah, this is 53 BCE, Crassus, who you might Now, while that was happening, in 53 BCE, which is right over here, And that is the end, and he's able to take all of this territory for Rome. They end here in Alesia, where Julius Caesar's legionsĪre able to win decisively. Have the Gallic Wars, and that's what I haveĭepicted here in red, from 58 BCE to 52 BCE, and Governorship, of his position as Pro Consul, you also Say, comparable to the Romans, but it was theirįragmentation that allowed Julius Caesar to go after them. They were militarily,įairly sophisticated, they were, many historians There's many, many of them, Plutarch says on the order ofģ00 of these Gallic tribes. Now the Gauls, or these Gallic tribes, they're super fragmented, The territories into Gaul, to take on these Gallic tribes. And he uses his positionĪs military governor, as Pro Consul, to expand With the Gallic tribes, I guess you'd say, near the Italian Alps these are two of the regions, two of the three regions, that he's given to govern. View as a military governor, and he's given regions that border Gaul, so he's given what would beĬonsidered Southern France right over here, border One-year term, he becomes Pro Consul, which you can To cause a lot of tension in the Senate between the Other one was a figure named Bibulus, but Julius Caesar isĪble to dominate the position, and he's a very powerfulĬonsul, and he tries to put all of these populous reforms into place. The beginning of this video, there are two Consuls, the To put Julius Caesar in as Consul for the year 59 BCE. And so, this First Triumvirate is able to use their influence To do land redistribution, versus the conservatives, who wanted to hold the power in the aristocracy. You could view them as, in certain ways, progressive, they wanted They had populist tendencies, they wanted to do things for the people. And even though JuliusĬaesar was a Patrician, he was part of the nobility, Move and hold the power within the Senate, this First Triumvirate. Hold the power of the Roman Republic, and to really Official government group, it allowed them to really And this First Triumvirate,Įven though it wasn't an official, it's an More than a decade before Julius Caesar, and heĪlso forms this alliance with Pompey, who isĪlso a little bit older than Julius Caesar, and is a significant military figure, a general, Is a good bit older than Julius Caesar, he's born Rome at the time and is believed to be one of the This is Julius Caesar, ofĬourse, and he forms this triumvirate, which later gets known as the First Triumvirate, with Crassus, who is the richest man in Two other powerful figures in Rome, so you have. He is born to a patricianįamily, he rises up through the ranks, he's charismaticįigure, and in 60, he forms a triumvirate with

Is roughly 40 years old, and he's already a significantįigure in the Republic. But let's go into the story, and there's going to be a significantĬast of characters here that I'm going to go into. As we'll see, his life,Įspecially the end of his life, marks the transition to anĮmpire, in which there's a Roman Emperor who Senate, you had these Consuls who were electedįor these one-year terms, and there were all of But, during Julius Caesar'sīirth and during his life, Rome was still officiallyĪ republic, and that's referring more to its form of government you had a very powerful That state, well, this is, by most definitions, what These people that have different languages, cultures,Īnd they don't have the same rights as a citizen of Were separately, in 146 BCE, were also able to take over Greece. Over Carthage's possessions in Africa, and in Spain, at the end of the 3rd Punic War, they wereĪlso, and this wasn't part of the Punic War, but they You might remember thatĭuring the Punic Wars they were able to take Of the 1st century BCE, the Roman Republic already The time of Julius Caesar's birth, at the beginning Republic, because it's important to keep in mind, even at His life really marks the transition from official Roman Going to talk about one of the most significantįigures in Western history, and that's Gaius Julius Caesar.

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