What Are The Causes Of Julius Caesar's Success

When discussing about who the most important person was in Rome, one would usually think of Gaius Julius Caesar, who lived from 100 BCE to 44 BCE. People at the time admired him so much to even give him the title “dictator perpetuo” which meant dictator in perpetuity because of his achievements. Caesar accomplished unbelievable achievements such as instigating political and economic reforms, conquering Gaul, and establishing a calendar with 365 days. Because of his contribution, his assassination was without a doubt an impediment to the Roman state and prevented it from prospering as it did before his death.
During his lifetime, Caesar contributed to Rome’s success by creating political and economic changes that allowed him to gain popularity from the common people. Although Caesar was from a patrician family, he was a Populare (a person that favored plebeians). For this reason, leaders that were part of the Optimate faction, which consisted of people that favored aristocrats. The patricians, at the time, had most of the land in Rome and had more power than the plebeians who made up most of the Roman republic. One of many reforms he made was “further land redistribution among the poor, land reform for veterans, which eliminated the …show more content…
Before the Julius Calendar, the traditional Roman had brought great confusion among the Romans. As a result, “Roman festivals and days of sacrifice gradually got out of place and finally came to be celebrated at the very opposite seasons to what was originally intended”(Robin seagar). However, Caesar put assembled the best scholars and mathematicians at the time to try to solve it. The mathematicians used different methods of correction to form a calendar that was more accurate than others were. Although the Julius Calendar is not in use today, it greatly affected the modern calendar, which contains 365