that people tend to follow the crowd; therefore‚ he uses this point to exemplify mob mentality which is prevalent throughout the play. In Act I‚ the commoners are cheering for Caesar after the defeat of Pompey‚ Marullus‚ a tribune‚ reminds them of how they had similarly cheered for Pompey in the same streets. The people once wait “with patient expectation‚ to see great
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Question Number One There were several problems created through the Roman policy of “Bread and Circuses.” As Rome’s political system evolved‚ Rome’s armies’ expanded the Roman power across Italy. After getting rid of their Etruscan rulers‚ Romans gained power over central Italy. By about 270 B.C.‚ Rome occupied all of Italy. Rome’s success was partly because of its efficient‚ well-disciplined army. The Roman armies were made up of citizen-soldiers who fought without any pay‚ and supplied
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Cleopatra Cleaopatra was born in 69 BC and died august 12 30BC She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty‚ a family of Greek[2][3][4][5][6][7] origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great’s death during the Hellenistic period. Cleopatra originally ruled jointly with her father Ptolemy XII Auletes and later with her brothers‚ Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV‚ whom she married as per Egyptian custom‚ When her father Ptolemy XII died in 51 BC‚ Cleopatra became co-regent with her 10-year-old
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he convinced Crassus and Pompey to be allies rather than enemies. This resulted in a triumvirate between Julius‚ Pompey‚ and Crassus. During his reign‚ Julius felt it was indispensable to make sure he acquired complete domination due to having enemies in the senate that would imprison him the first chance they had. Julius ended up going to war against Pompey in 49 B.C. because Caesar was seen as a threat. Pompey was no match for Caesar and within a year‚ Caesar pushed Pompey out of Italy and a
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returned to Rome‚ he was in the lead in agitating for government reforms. Additionally‚ Caesar was behind the election of Pompey‚ who became the head of the Democratic Party. Due to his popularity‚ he became a military tribune. Together with Pompey‚ they went to the East so as to obtain power in terms of command. After that‚ he returned to Rome and became more honored than Pompey. All this time‚ he continually adored Cinna and Marius‚ and
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all of the turmoil there arose a powerful politician‚ Julius Caesar. Caesar created the First Triumvirate (three men) consisting of Caesar‚ Crassus‚ and Pompey (also known as Magnus). The Triumvirate really only made these men more powerful though and really didn’t help Rome overall. The Triumvirate disappeared when Crassus died and Caesar and Pompey started to fight. Caesar invaded Rome in 49 B.C.E.
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#10—Crash Course World History The Roman Empire or Republic or...Which Was It? 1. The story of Rome begins when twins‚ Romulus and Remus‚ who’d been raised by wolves‚ founded a city on ___________ hills. 2. What does SPQR stand for? It means Senatus Populusque Romanus (the Senate and the People of Rome)‚ one of the ___________ of the Roman Republic. 3. Rome was divided into two broad classes: the ___________ – the small group of aristocratic families and the ___________‚ basically everybody else
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Julius Caesar: Military and Political Strength 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
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assassination of Julius Caesar‚ a man who some believed to have been a great leader. Marcus Junius Brutus‚ also called Quintus Caepio Brutus was born in 85 BC near Philippi‚ Macedonia‚ to Marcus Junius Brutus and Servilia. Brutus father was killed by Pompey the Great‚ and he was later adopted and raised by his uncle‚
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offices as well as public voting were only opened to males‚ many Roman women were of special importance in the political world. It was no coincidence that Caesar’s aunt Julia married Marius. Caesar himself married Sulla’s granddaughter Pompeia‚ and Pompey married Caesar’s daughter Julia‚ etc.. Examples of marriages like that were innumerable in Roman society‚ and if we make a deeper research‚ it won’t be surprising that the aristocratic families were all connecting to each other in the relationship
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