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- Caesar's adopted son and heir
- Received the difficult task of trying to bring peace and order to Italy
- Shared power with another general of Caesar's Marcus Lepidus
- Octavian's fleet battled Marc Antony and was victorious at Actium
- By 30 B.C.E he had united the entire Mediterranean Basin and changed his name to Augustus
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- term meaning first citizen
- Agustus was princeps of the Seante and imperator of the soldiers
- Becuase of these he held firm control in the city and provinces
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- The greates test the Roman Repulic ever face
- A war with Carthage, a Phoenician colony in north Africa
- Began in 264
- It ended in a Roman Victory whih sparked the creation of the Roman Empire
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- Caesar was one chief figure in a rivalry tyhat eventually caused civil war in Rome
- A clique of conspirators decided the only way to save the Roman Republic was to kill Caesar
- He was then stabbed and killed on the steps of the Senate house in 44 BC
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