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Background to Julius Caesar
Kevin K
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7th Grade
01/29/2007

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Who was Julius Caesar? When was he born?
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Julius Caesar was born in 100 B.C. He grew to be a magnetic youth whose has a lot of charm and eloquence. He served in the army in Asia untill Sulla's death.
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Who was Pompey?
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Pompey was an different speaker, a good athlete and a swordsman. He was a very skilled swordsman.
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What where Caesar's building projects?
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Caesar had two builing projects. One was for his 100,000 citizens that were retired from war. He had made about 20 colonies for them. The second project was for the beauty of Rome.
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How lond did Caesar rule Rome?
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Caesar ruled Rome for about sixteen to seventeen months. It was not sure, but he might have ruled between 49 to 44 B.C. he took over the whole peninsula.
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Who was Octavious?
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Octavious was Caesar's great nephew. He was a very handsome eighteen year old. When the time of Caesar's death, he decided to cross to Italy he was designed to claim the trone since he was the heir.
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How did Caesar change the calender?
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He changed the calender from being a old luner calender to a new solar calender. Caesar also changed the days from 355 days to 365 1/4 days.
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Who opposed Caesar's reign? Why?
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The 60 senetors killed and opposed Caesar because they were jeolus of how Caesar had so much power and the how he had become a dictator.
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Why were people not opposed to Caesar's dictatorship?
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Julius Caesar was a very different kind of ruler. He gave more mercy to others and did not kill or torture anyone who opposed him.
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How did Julius Caesar give himself more power?
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Caesar given himself more power by collecting a lot of men and officers. He also collected other dictators, tribunes and high prests. He did not try to take to potition of the king because then people might think that he is a dictator like the old ones.
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Who was Crassus? What was his way to collect money?
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Crassus was a finacier of great means shrewdly. He was and had been a veteran officer and been first in line to snap the property of Sulla's victims. he was very sly and collected money in a threatening manner.
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How did everyone divide the land.
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Octavian took the West, Antony took the East, and Lepedus was in control of Africa.
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How did Caesar change the Roman citizenship requirments?
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Caesar made the city of Rome into an attracted intellectuals by granting full rights of citizenship to doctors, teachers, librarians and scholars who all came from the provinces to settle in Rome.
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What happened to Lepidus?
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Lepidus had now stepped up to claim Sicily and ordered Octavian to leave, where-upon his own troops began to desert Octavian. He ordered octavian to leave Sicily.
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How did Mark Antony feel about Octavius' arrival in Rome after Caesar's death?
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Antony felt very evasive and with a good reason. he demanded his share of Caesar's estate. He thought that the money and power will all go to him or also known as his best friend, but acually it was given to Octavian.
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What happened to Mark Antony and Cleopatra?
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They comited suicide.
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What happened to Mark Antony and Cleopatra?
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They comited suicide.
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Who was the last to live out of all the famous Roman rulers?
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Caesar's great nephew or Octavius Julius Caesar.
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What was the Ides of March?
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It was the day of when Caesar was killed. He was killed in March and in the 15th.
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Who was Cleopatra?
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Cleopatra was at once the ruler of Egypt, she dressed as a male and was in love with mark Antony.
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How did Caesar win his elections?
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Caesar won elections his elections by giving some entertainments for the people.
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