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    also elected sole consul in 48 BC. From 47-46 BC he was made tribunician sacrosanctity. Because of these accomplishments, Caesar was honored by being represented on coins and many statues. Caesar introduced many reforms, such as introducing the Julian calendar, and enlarging the senate. At the same time he reduced debts, changed taxes, and let non-italians become Roman citizens. He met the common peoples needs which strengthened his control of the state. In 44 BC people began fearing that Caesar…

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    Sir Isaac Newton was a mathematician and physicist. He discovered the laws of motion and gravity. He was born on January 4,1643, but sometimes it is declared as December 25,1642 if you use the old Julian calendar. Isaac was born in Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, where he attended school in his younger years. At school when he was younger, Isaac was unmoved by literature and poetry, but found an interest in mechanics and technology. His mother had wanted him to run the family farm,…

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    Finally, the last similarity coinciding in the texts is the concept of adaptability and transformation within the Middle Ages. The Medieval Machine describes the Church’s initial feelings when the mechanical clock was first revealed. Initially, the Church declared the mathematical division of time into units of minutes and hours to have no correlation with the eternity of time. However, as time elapsed, the Church shifted its attitude which, according to The Medieval Machine, “signaled an…

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    Gaius Julius Caesar One of the many legendary dictators, Julius Caesar, had influenced other cultures and empires after his time, and today continues to be an important role model from history. He had grown up from a political family, being the basis for his political career as a young adult. However, with power comes risk. His violent end turns tragic in a matter of minutes. His history continues to influence the world today. Julius Caesar, born on July 12, 100 BC in Subura, Rome, was…

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    The Republican government in Rome collapsed in the year of 44-27 B.C. Many events caused this event to occur in Roman history, the rise of private armies and the creation of the first Triumvirate could have possibly both contributed to the collapse of the Roman Republic. However, Julius Caesar is mostly to blame for the fall of the republican government in Rome. Julius Caesar did many good deeds during his ruling in Rome prior to the collapse of Rome. People referred to Caesar as a noble man and…

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    Julius Caesar’s Death Is it okay to assassinate someone? World leaders have to face this decision every day. There have been some awful rulers around the world, but it is impossible to kill someone without there being consequences. When the U.S. decided to kill Saddam Husain, it caused chaos in Iraq which is still going on today. The same thing happened when the conspirators killed Julius Caesar. They rushed into it and didn’t think about the things that would follow after murdering him. Caesar…

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    ancient southern Italy (Greeks). Rome was the centerpiece of Earth’s eastern hemisphere and stretched from modern day Spain to the beginning of the Caspian Sea. Rome may have immortalized its own ideologies and structures such as roads or the Julian Calendar, named after Roman emperor Julius Caesar, but this civilization has also amended and created its own variations of concepts and ideas already laid out by former, less popular civilizations, through the means of cultural diffusion. Some of…

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    the Inuit and the metis people. They are famously known as the Aboriginal peoples of Canada. What do these mean? BCE: it means Before the Common Era. CE: it means Common Era. These two words were famously used during the Julian calendar period and the Gregorian calendar period. 2. Use 10 Glossary Terms in sentences, to demonstrate understanding of Native people in U.S. History. • Back in the 19th century, hegemony…

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    Livy: The Rise Of Rome

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    The early stories about the rise of Rome were seen through Livy’s eyes, an Italian man from Padua. His stories about Rome was to glorify Rome’s greatness and how it still connects with its past. His stories examine the good and the bad that has occurred in Rome. Livy’s stories made Rome seem like a great place to be at, with all the virtues that they took to hear the most. The virtues that the Romans considered to be important were duty, courage and determination, loyalty, humility. Even though…

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    Synthesis Essay – Julius Caesar MSgt Frederick E. Stevenson Air Force Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy Introduction Have you ever heard the phrase, ‘Rome wasn’t built in one day’? I’m pretty sure you have. In fact, it took decades for the Roman empire to become the historic civilization we’ve read in books or watched in a documentary. The empire didn’t just sprout out of nowhere, it’s expansion to a super power of the time was cultivated by the idea and concepts of a leader. That…

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