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Who Was Responsible For Julius Caesar's Downfall

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Julius Caesar Originally a Trojan prince, Julius Caesar's birth, July 12 or 13, 100 B.C. By age 31, Caesar had fought in several wars and become involved in Roman Empire. After several years he finally became dictator of the The Roman Empire. He would only serve one year before his assassination, but in that short period Caesar changed the empire. He changed the Roman calendar and reorganized how local government was made. In addition he remade two city-states, Carthage and Corinth, and he gave citizenship to great amount of foreigners. He also proved to be a great victor by inviting some of his defeated rivals to join him in his empire. But Caesar was also careful to keep his power and rule. He stuffed the Senate with allies, and required …show more content…

Envy and concern over Caesar's increasing power led to angst among a number of politicians who saw in him an aspiring king. History had shown that Romans had no desire for monarchical rule. Legend had it that by the time Caesar came to power it had been five hundred years since they'd last allowed a king to rule them.Caesar's wish to do his former Roman enemies in the government helped spell his downfall. Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus were both former enemies who'd joined the Senate. Together, the two of them led the assassination of Caesar on the Ides of March 44 BC.It's not altogether clear whether Caesar knew ahead of time of the plot to kill him. What was clear, though, was that the conspirators, who dubbed themselves "the liberators," needed to act fast. By all accounts Caesar had plans to leave Rome on March 18 for a military campaign in what is now Iraq. There he hoped to avenge the losses suffered by Crassus.Brutus' involvement in the killing packed the most complicated backstory. He had originally sided with Pompey during Rome's earlier civil war, but then had been encouraged to join the government after Caesar's victory. His mother, Servilia, was also one of

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