Julius Caesar Outline

?Gaius? Julius Caesar

By: Bryson Hathaway

Thesis:

By looking at Julius Caesar, one can see that he was very successful in many

ways most importantly in the way of leading an army. This is important because

Rome grew appreciably with Caesar in command.

Guiding Question:

How and why did Caesar grow the Roman Empire so much?

Early life:

Julius Caesar was born July 13, 100 BC to Gaius Julius Caesar

who was an praetor (important person in government), and

Aurelia Caesar who was more known as the sister of the wife of

the leader of ?the popular group.? When Julius, who dropped his

real first name because it was the same as his father?s, was

only 15 his father died. After that he started to move up in the

world of the military

and also got married. He married a woman
name Cornelia, and because of this when the dictator ?Sulla?
came to power Julius was told to divorce Cornelia because she
was in the family of one of Sulla?s enemies.

So instead of

following his leader?s orders he ran and hid from a certain death

penalty, and returned to Rome after Sulla died.

Government:

Ceasar rose up the ranks in the military and quickly became the pontifex maximus

or the chief priest. As he continued his military success and was elected consul,

he wasn?t the only one, he was actually one of three.

Gaul:

Julius Caesar persuaded both Cassius and Pompey (the other

two consuls) to work together and he would support them, but

he had a high price, him being consul by himself. But he had a

plot, his idea was to go to Gaul, he did this for two reasons one

was to give his veteran soldiers land and also to expand his

empire (this proves my thesis). Caesar had many victories in

Gaul and also tried to conquer Britain. This made Pompey

jealous (Crassius had died in battle) and now both Caesar and

Pompey wanted to be sole consul.

Civil war:

With both Caesar and Pompey wanting to be consul it was almost inevitable that

there wouldn?t be conflict. Caesar had broken the law by bringing his army into the

home provenance and now it was a battle, Caesar against Pompey. Caesar only

had a meger 21000 men against Pompey?s 46000. Both were military

geniuses
and on that day it looked like Caesar was more cunning. Caesar had defeated
Pompey (who pulled a King Darius III and ran away to Egypt and was killed),
Caesar had before the battle changed the senate and was named dictator.

The death of Julius Caesar:

On March 15, 44 BC, Caesar met with the senate one last time before he left for
his expedition against the Parthians. Little did he know that the senate was
plotting to assassinate him in the senate house that Pompey had built. 60
conspires attacked him with daggers and killed him underneath the statue of
Pompey himself.

Julius Caesar Alexander the Great

Stopped a civil war.

Both were great
strategists who
were greatly
outnumbered and
still won.

Conquered parts of 3
continents.

Lived from 100 BC
to 44 BC.

Lived from July 356
BC to June 323 BC.

Was captured by pirates.

Map:

Timeline:

Caesar is
born

Circa 100
BC

Caesar is
elected Consul

Julius is
named
dictator

60 BC

45 BC

Julius Caesar dies (
assassination)

44 BC

State standandards:

Civics/Government all: I hit these standards because I learned a lot about government
because Caesar was very important in Rome?s government. And also because
government was the reason for many of his battles.

Economics/money/Decisions: 2.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.4.1: I hit these
standards because I learned all if these except 2.4 which is ?I understand problems with
economic systems.?

Geography all : I hit these standards because I used two maps where you have to
identify regions, and during my research I learned about where and how he traveled.
And also I learned about how he had to keep getting new land to give his veteran
soldiers.

History: all: I think that I hit all of these standards because the Roman?s triggered many
other events in history, for example when they conquered greece they stopped the
Olympics which was a fall of culture.

Sources:

? White, D. (2004). The life of julius caesar
? This week in history: Julius caesar assassinated. (2016, Mar). NewsCurrents Read to

Know, Retrieved from http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com.
? Assassination of Julius Caesar. (2018, April 21). Retrieved from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Julius_Caesar
? Julius Caesar Timeline. (n.d.). Retrieved from

http://www.softschools.com/timelines/julius_caesar_timeline/33/
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