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Term Paper Title	Julius Caesar
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Julius Caesar

Imperator and Dictator 61 - 44 B. C.

"I came, I saw, I conquered!"

These words express the incredibly strong will
and no-nonsense attitude of one of history's
most famous men. Julius Caesar was
courageous and quick-witted. He was also very
good with people. But most of all, he was a
gambler who knew how to calculate the odds. Willing to stake everything he had,
including his life on a chance to win big in the game of politics and war, he was very
sure of himself even to the point of being arrogant on occasion. The story is told how
he was captured by pirates while still a young man only twenty-two years old. They
planned to ransom him for twenty talents of gold but he explained that he was worth
much more. The pirates agreed and increased his ransom to fifty talents. While he
was their prisoner, he would read to them from books of Roman and Greek
literature. When they showed nothing but scorn for him and his books, Caesar
promised to hunt them all down and put them to death after he was ransomed. The
pirates should have killed him right there instead of laughing at him as if he were a
little banty rooster strutting about making threats. Julius Caesar made good on his
promises, though. After he was released, Caesar borrowed a ship from the governor
of a nearby island and hunted down his captors. After defeating them, he crucified
the whole band, leaving them to die of thirst hanging naked on crosses in the hot
Mediterranean sun.

Julius Caesar's most famous accomplishments include the conquest of Gaul and the
invasion of Britain. The continuous pattern of civil war that had plagued the Roman
Republic continued during the time of Julius Caesar, and he was a major player in
the struggles for power. He defeated his major rival Cnaeus Pompey in 48 B.C. at
the Battle of Pharsalus. Because he continued to concentrate so much power in his
own hands that traditionally belonged to the Senate, Caesar faced steadily growing
opposition from the senators of Rome. Many of them believed that he would put an
end to the Republic and that he was a threat to all that Roman traditions held dear. A
band of conspirators succeeded in assassinating him in 44 B.C., but his memory
remained extremely popular amongst the common people of Rome. This paved the
way for his adopted relative Octavian to gain power and become the first Roman
emperor.

After Caesar's death, there was a curious mixed reaction amongst the Roman people.
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