Julius Caesar Greed

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The Roman empire was a strong empire that reigned from 750 BCE by the 5th century has fallen and the Roman army was a problem. The Roman army was a strong and vast but later grew weaker. Julius Caesar was the Roman emperor but was then turned greedy and very lazy. Which then lead to a weaker empire in the reign. In the beginning the roman empire was a vast empire and this lead to great leadership and a good army. The army had conquered many territories and made them believe they were powerful, and strong. By then the roman empire had become an immense territory and the Romans had become more powerful and rich in Europe. This leads to greediness in the roman reign. Julius Caesar was then turned into a greedy ruler. He didn't want to share an …show more content…

Each one of the citizens had a hard time to pay when no one really had enough money to pay at all and this got into a bigger problem. Secondly the lack of cooperation can result in a commotion and results of comprehension in the civilization making the whole place a mess. For many years the roman empire had a very strong army that helps them get a boost in having a huge civilization. In the end the army gets more lazy making the empire a lot weaker and the problem then ends with only a weak civilization. Also in a brainpop there is a point taken that Julius Caesar was the one to ruin the citizenship and may have been the one to separate the kingdom. For instance, no one really chooses a reliable system for choosing roman emperors. Making them enemies and have lots of rivals. As soon as one empire, choose another emperor the next one in line would assassinate him or even overthrow them from the rule. This lead to …show more content…

And the more the roman empire tried to make better it, in a way made even worse and didn’t prove anything but that they're less genius. The part that ruined it all was the lack of the cooperation with the ruling. This all leads to the fall of the army and the fall of the actual empire. Although many think it hasn't fallen all the way just yet since we involve the way they lived in our daily government and we have reasons to think exactly like that. The roman empire had reason to start a conflict with their citizens. Of course whom the citizens were right to have protested, and this is proved in source E form the excerpt of the historical text written by Priscus roman ambassador to the huns in the year 449 C.E. and he explains so. “A [wealthy lawbreaker] is not punished for his injustice while a poor man undergoes the legal penalty” Making more reasons to see the roman rulers are unfair and have no consideration of the weak. This all sums up to the poor

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