The Roman republic began with the overthrowing of the Roman Kingdom in 509 BC. It began the period of conquest that would see Rome’s control expand from just a mediterranean kingdom into a government that would hold ownership over the most of the known world. What happened to the Republic? Was it simply just overexpansion? Lack of governmental interest in Roman provinces? We believe that the main cause of the Republic’s fall was just one man. Julius Caesar
We believe Julius Caesar caused the collapse of the republic because he was too ambitious. Caesar was a member of an old, if not particularly rich Aristocratic family. Caesar was not like other Romans, he realized that the only way into Roman politics was money, and lots of it, as such he immediately married his first wife, Cornelia, who was the daughter of a more influential family. …show more content…
Thereafter he was posted at Cilicia, where he proved to be a courageous soldier and brilliant tactician, again we see where Caesar would pick up his most defining characteristic, his skill at war.
At this time in Rome, the Sertorian War, an uprising of the provincial governor Quintus Sertorius, a supporter of Gaius Marius, the war would be won by Pompey after nearly a decade of fighting. This uprising would serve to increase political tensions between the Senate and Sulla.
Caesar, after his post in Cilicia, chose to stay on the island of Rhodes for the winter, but the ship that was carrying him there was captured by pirates, who held him hostage for around forty days, during this time we can see some of the ruthlessness that would come to define him later. he would joke to the pirates that he would have them all crucified. Everyone laughed, even Caesar, but after a large ransom bought his freedom he personally hunted the pirates down and had them
We believe Julius Caesar caused the collapse of the republic because he was too ambitious. Caesar was a member of an old, if not particularly rich Aristocratic family. Caesar was not like other Romans, he realized that the only way into Roman politics was money, and lots of it, as such he immediately married his first wife, Cornelia, who was the daughter of a more influential family. …show more content…
Thereafter he was posted at Cilicia, where he proved to be a courageous soldier and brilliant tactician, again we see where Caesar would pick up his most defining characteristic, his skill at war.
At this time in Rome, the Sertorian War, an uprising of the provincial governor Quintus Sertorius, a supporter of Gaius Marius, the war would be won by Pompey after nearly a decade of fighting. This uprising would serve to increase political tensions between the Senate and Sulla.
Caesar, after his post in Cilicia, chose to stay on the island of Rhodes for the winter, but the ship that was carrying him there was captured by pirates, who held him hostage for around forty days, during this time we can see some of the ruthlessness that would come to define him later. he would joke to the pirates that he would have them all crucified. Everyone laughed, even Caesar, but after a large ransom bought his freedom he personally hunted the pirates down and had them