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| Who is Pompey? Describe his character. |
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| Pompey is a member of the First Triumvirate. There is not much that is special about him, but to the people, he had a special prescence that made them feel safe and protected. He had the ability to control and a strong personality. He was the second to fall in the First Triumvirate. |
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| Who is Crassus? Describe his character. |
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| Crassus is a member of the First Triumvirate. He is an inteligent Sullan officer that met Pompey on the return trip from Spain. Wants power, and attempts the get it at any chance he gets. He was the first to fall in the First Triumvirate. |
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| Who is Caesar? Describe his character. |
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| Caesar is a member of the first triumvirate. Seemingly destined to rule, Caesar was brought up in a very politicall family. He had a knack for managing people and the intellect to know how to win power. He was the last to fall in the First Triumvirate. |
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| Who is Antony? Describe his character. |
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| Antony is a member of the Second Triumvirate. He was a friend of Caesar's, and also shared some of the same characteristics for ruling and intelligence. Arrogant about his power, because right after Caesars death, he thought that all the power was his. He was the second to fall in the Second Triumvirate. |
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| Who is Lepidus? Describe his character. |
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| Lepidus is a member of the second triumvirate. The governor of nearer Spain, Lepidus chose to back up Mark Antony against Octaviun. He was the first to fall in the Second Triumvirate. |
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| Who is Octaviun? Describe his character. |
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| Octaviun is a member of the second triumvirate. Held many characteristics similiar to Caesar. He was Caesar heir, and because of this many felt it unjust to fight him. Planned to help Rome as well, but in a more cynicall and deviating way. He was the Last to fall in the Second Triumvirate. |
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| How did the First Triumvirate break up? |
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| Crassus, being the first to fall, made enemies with the Parthian archers, who shot him and ended his career. Shortly after, the senate bought Pompeys support and wanted to eliminate Caesar. Demanding Caesar to give up his power or be declared a public enemy, the senate depended on the citizens to think Caesaars invasion of Itally was treason, but they instead honored him. Pompey, his army, and many senators than fled to Greece where they were defeated by Caesar at Pompeians in 45 B.C. The senate now boiled in hatred and jealousy because Caesar had now destroyed what they had put so much effort and time into working on. The senators then plotted against Caesar and killed him on March 15 45 B.C. (The Ides of March). That was the end of the First Triumvirate. |
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| How did the Second Triumvirate start? |
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| At Caesar's funreal, Mark Antony, one of Caesar's friends, immediatly took control and plotted to inflame the audience and make them hate the senators. Octaviun, Caesars heir, was alerted of his step-fathers death and immediatly changed his name and took the same position. Antony was in a state of shock because he had already sold away the inheritance, and when Octaviun asked why the conspirators weren't punished he was again hit. He had underestimated Octaviun and his resemblance to his father. Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, the governor of nearer Spain, now chose to bak up Antony, but fighting against Caesar's heir was unjust so together, with Octaviun, they formed the Second Triumvirate. |
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| What is The Ides of March, and when was Caesar killed |
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| The day that Caesar was assinated. He was killed on March 15 44 B.C. |
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| How did Caesar change the calendar? |
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| Caesar changed the calendar from 355 days to 365.25 days in a year. He also changed it from a lunar year to a solar year. |
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| When and how long did Caesar lead Rome? |
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| Caesar led around sometime between 49 and 44 B.C., and for a mere sixteen months. |
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| How did the Second Triumvirate divide the land? |
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Octavian-West
Mark Antony-East
Lepidus-Africa |
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| The senators opposed him because they were jealous and angry at him for being so powerfull. |
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| What were Ceasars building projects? |
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| Caesar's building projects included providing 20 colonies of land for his veterans and people. Plus Caesar enhanced the beauty of Italy. (P.236) |
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| How did Caesar give himself more power? |
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| He bought all of the offices except the role of King because he did not want to be just another dictator like Sulla. |
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| How did Caesar get rid of the century old dept problem? |
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| He forced the citizens to spend all their mmoney at once and not save any of it so that it could circulate and be shared. He cancled all the mortage right at once, and forced people to accept land instead of money. (Especially peasants who had nowhere to live.) |
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| Why was Caesar a particularly special leader? |
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| Caesar put most of his effort into making the people and citizens of Rome happy instead of trying restore the Senate or give luxury to the top class. He allowed people of less status to take on special positions as long as they were smart. |
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| How did Caesar try to make education more popular? |
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| He gave scholars and doctors and teachers special oppurtunities so that more people would be interested in education themselves and going to school. |
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| How did the people react when Caesar marched his army into Rome? |
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| The people hailed Caesar as a patriot. |
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| What are some special connection between the two triumvirates? |
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| Caesar, and his son Octaviun both met the other two in their triumvirates after those other two met each other. Also, Caesar and his son were the two that lasted the longest and had the most power. Plus, in each triumvirate, although they had different goals at times, something happened to trigger them to take out each other. The triumvirates were not really destroyed by the enemy, but by themselves. |
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| Did Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar like each other? Why or why not? |
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| Caesar Pompey and Crassus did not like each other, far from it in fact, but they felt a need to associate with each other to achieve their own personal goals. |
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| Who was Sulla? Describe his character. |
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| Sulla was neither a member of the First or Second Triumvirate. This man was the leader before/dictator before Caesar came to power. He had a particullar personality because his way of achieving his goal was strange. His hope was to reastablish the power of the senate, but to do this, he first broke down and destroyed the senate, weaved his way in, and then restored power to it. He was a good leader, but some may think that he wanted to be on the senate just to have a position of power instead of to help the people. |
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| How did Mark Antony come to an end? |
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| He commited suicide with Cleopatra. |
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| When and why did Cleopatra come to Rome? |
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| She came at Antony's request in 41 B.C. |
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| What was interesting about Cleopatra? |
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| Cleopatra wasn't extremely beutifal, and some may say she was rather inattractive, but people awed her for her charming character and special prescence that made them feel she was someone special. She was very educated and could speak in most barbaric(Western/European) languages. |
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| How did Lepidus become a retired triumvirate? |
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| After Octaviun conquered Sicily, Lepidus said that Sicily was now his therefore his own mane started to diband him and join Octaviun's army. |
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| How did Pompey meat Crassus? |
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| They met on the return trip from Spain. |
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| When did Caesar be declared a public enemy. |
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| To have land for his veterans. |
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| To recieve a share of the Asian taxes. |
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| How did Crassus become very rich? |
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| Whenever there was a house on fire, then Crassus would stand outside the house with his own personal fire departmnt. He would not set the fire out unless the owner agreed to sign a contrat that would sell the house to them at a very low cost. He would then sell the house at a more expensive amount, and in this way he made himself rich. |
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| When was Julius Caesar born? |
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| Who lead the slave revolt? Why? How many slaves joined? |
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| Spartacus, a gladiator saw through his own eyes the unjust that slaves had to endure. He lead 70,000 slaves to revolt, but failed. |
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| What did Pompey do early in the triumvirate that annoyed Crassus? How? |
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| He claimed that he himself was the only hero of the slave revolt just because he had killed the last bit of slaves that were trying to flee. |
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| What Party is Caesar part of? |
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| Caesar was part of the Marian party. |
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| How many gauls died during the Gallic Wars? |
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| When was the first triumvirate created? |
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| In what ways was Caesar arrogant about his power? Provide one example. |
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| He thought that he had complete control and that he was equall to the gods. When a phsychic had anounced that he had found an animal with no heart, certainly a bad omen, Caesar said that he would choose if it was a bad omen or not, a sure sign that he placed himself in the same level with gods. |
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| Give an example of Crassus' military might. |
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| during the slave revolt, Crassus using only 6 legions, crushed most of the 70,000 slaves. |
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| When did the Second Triumvirate start? |
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| How did Antony sieze power right after Caesar's death? |
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| He told the senate to announce their perspective of Caesar as being a strong ruler. Killing him, would definently inrage the audience. Shortly after the senate fled for their lives. |
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| When did Caesar lead his army into Rome? |
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| What is the greatest achievment Caesar had? |
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| When was Pompey born? When did he die? |
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| When was Crassus born? When did he die? |
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| When did Pompey go to the east to stop the pirate raids? |
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| What did Pompey want from the senate? |
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| He wanted triumph, senatorial ratification of his actions, and land for his veterans. |
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| When was Caesar declared a public enemy? |
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| What other Roman did Cleopatra have a relationship with besides Marc Antony? |
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| Why did Lepidus and Antony hesitate in deciding to attack Octaviun? |
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| Octaviun was Caesar's heir |
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| In the end, who prevailed after all the struggles and battles? |
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| His goal was to unify Rome under one empire. |
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