1. People and empires Diego Serrat0 History 140

3. Rome began in the seventh century B.C. as a small city-state of farmers and tradesman occupying a territory of a few square miles on the lower Tiber.

5. The empire of the roman Republic might have benefited mostly the patricians, the consuls, and the proconsuls who commanded the legions and whose power and wealth derived from their success in battle.

7. Caesar had conquered Gaul in a spectacular if brutal campaign in 58-51 B.C.

8. In 52, Pompey, who as sole consul was in effective control of the Senate, fearful of Caesar’s growing power and obvious autocratic ambitions, attempted to prevent him from returning to Rome as consul.

10. On March 15, 44B.C. Caesar was assassinated by a motely group of republicans and ex-Pompeians led by Brutus and Cassius, two of his former companions.

11. Caesar assassination was the most celebrated murder in European history

12. Caesar’s death didn’t restore the republic as his murder had hoped instead into a civil war that nearly destroyed the empire.