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…, peace, and prosperity to a Rome that had suffered several decades of civil wars. Born Gaius Octavius and adopted by Julius Caesar, he was given the name Augustus, meaning, "consecrated," by the Roman Senate after he avenged Caesar’s death and consolidated his…

…Marcus Brutus was a supposed good friend of Caesar. He was an idealistic man who was motived more by honor and nobility than his own personal relationships. His inflexible honor made it easy for the conspirators in the play to take advantage…

…In Shakespeare's play of "Caesar" Brutus is a conspirator who portrays a person who favors a republic for Rome. Brutus is an honorable man. Many characters in the play show there reverence for Brutus. Brutus exemplifies his honor in many ways. Brutus…

…Biography of Genghis Khan- The old world had many great leaders. Alexander the Great, Hannibal and even Julius Caesar met with struggle on their rise to power. Perhaps Genghis Khan was the most significant of all these rulers. To prove…

…No other era has captured our lives today as the Greeks and Romans did. From Homer and his epic poetry to Julius Caesar of the Gallic War, people today relate to this era as an internal element. Though we read about the Greeks and the Romans…

…order, peace and prosperity to a Rome that had suffered several decades of civil wars following the assassination of Julius Caesar. Augustus, also known as Octavius, received the title ‘imperator’, from which derived the word ‘emperor’. This title…

…Barbara Tuchman Quotation Why was Julius Caesar assassinated in 44 B.C.—by his best friend, yet? Why did the Roman Empire crumble in the 5th century A.D.—historians are still puzzled by that disaster? Why did William of Normandy attack England…

…as if it derived from the Latin the word Picti meaning "painted folk" or possibly "tattooed ones"; and this may relate to the Welsh word Pryd meaning "to mark" or "to draw". Julius Caesar, who never went near Pictland, mentions the British Celtic custom of body painting…

…, but alas Carthage gave Rome all the excuse it needed. Rome’s Expansion not only caused the Punic War’s but also the breakdown of the republic. Nardo 1994, author of “The Roman Republic” stated that: Julius Caesar’s sudden death left a power vacuum in Rome…

…turned on him and imprisoned him after Caesar made him the heir to Rome. Caesar didn’t choose his own son because he was corrupt, when he told his son this his son suffocated Caesar before he annoced to Rome who the heir of Caesars empire was, and of course…