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Next, he crushed Germanic forces under Ariovistus and further proved his excellent leadership. Julius Caesar then marched into Celtic Gaul, defeated the Helvetii, and forced them to return to their home (Encarta 200). He had three legions (15,000 men) under his command. They shared all offices between them and their followers and that’s the way Caesar became Governor of Gaul Transalpinia (Encarta 2000). This agreement dictated the Roman policy for the next decade. This three way consulship was called a Triumvirate (Internet Explorer). The alliance made it possible for them all to share power. Julius created an alliance among himself, Crassus, and Pompeius (Encarta 2000). Caesar noticed this and did something believed impossible. However, the Senate tried to stop his efforts by pitting Crassus, Pompeius and Caesar against each other. Caesar was hoping that he and Crassus would become the powerful consuls of the Roman Empire. The consulate was a governmental position where two consuls, nominated each year, held the power of the state. Caesar wanted to become part of the consulate. Their opponent was Pompeius Magnus (the Great). After the death of his wife Cornelia, Julius remarried a wealthy wife and allied with Crassus, who was the richest man in Rome at the time (Internet Explorer). There he served as an officer in Crassus’s army against Spartacus, Caesar climbed steadily in the government by serving as an official in many provinces (Internet Explorer). After these years and Sulla’s resignation in 78 BC, Julius decided to return to Rome. In two years he proved his bravery and superior skills at arms. He became second in command of the province Asia (Turkey) (Lindsay Salo). This was the beginning of an astonishing military career. Caesar refused that order and left Rome to join the army (Lindsay Salo) (Comptons Encyclopedia). Caesar was not harmed but he was ordered by Sulla to divorce Cornelia.

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Only forty-two busts and two full portrait statues still exist today.When Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Marius’s enemy and leader of the Optimates, was made dictator in 82 BC, he issued a list of enemies to be executed. After Caligula’s death, many of his statues were destroyed or defaced. The Romans soon began to hate him and he was finally assassinated. Also, according to Cassius Dio, Caligula threatened to make his horse, Incitatus, a consul and ordered the sun to rise during the night. 39, Gaius was suffering from a mental illness as he allegedly began to consider himself a god. Towards the end of his life, sources say, Caligula began to grow increasingly erratic, corrupt, and tyrannical. 41 he was assassinated in the royal palace by a conspiracy that included Cassius Chaerea, a member of Caligula’s guard. Caligula was the third of five Julio-Claudian emperors who ruled Rome from 27 BCE – A.D. Caligula succeeded Tiberius as emperor of the Rome, assuming the title Princeps (literally, “first citizen,” frequently translated as “emperor”), and enjoying much popularity in the beginning of his reign. 31, Caligula lived in Tiberius’s on the Island of Capri until Tiberius death in A.D. Tiberius eventually arrested Agrippina and banished Caligula’s two older brothers from Rome.

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