The Civil War In Rome

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A mysterious presence came up behind me, I turned around and in a blink of an eye I happened to be stabbed, I Julius Caesar had been stabbed inside the Curia of Pompey on the 15th of March (the ides of March). On the 12th of July, 100 BC I was born in Italy, Rome. My family was a noble aristocratic family, but we weren’t rich quite the opposite we were poor. father Gaius Julius Caesar died when I was only 15, ever since that day I have lived with my mother, Aurelia Cotta until I was ready to leave the house. my life I have faced many challenges such as starting a civil war in Rome, having an encounter with the Cilician pirates and as a result of overcoming those challenges I have been gravely affected.

The civil war in Rome was caused by me

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