Today in West Civ, we took notes, and talked about Julius Ceaser. 

Notes: Pompey------

           Crassus------       First Triumvirate 

           J.C. ---------

Proletarian- regular people who found themselves with ought property. 

Rubicon- the river, marks the northern part of the territory

-Ceaser sided with poor citizens 

triumvirate- an alliance of three politicians that enabled them to control the Republic's decision making 

                              -with another former henchman of Sulla, Marcus Crassus (dominant political force in Rome) 

-Once he crossed the Rubicon, he couldn't go back

-When someone has to make a big decision it can be called making a Rubicon 

-in 60 B.C, he began to collaboarte with Pompey, and officer promoted by Sulla who conquered many eastern Mediterranean lands

-with peoples help, Ceasar won an appointment as procunsel of a providence that included the southern regions of Gaul, a territory stretching all the way from nortther Italy and the Mediterannean coast to the Rhine River and the Atlantic Ocean 

-The Gaulish tribes outside the Roman- ruled areas were powerful enough they might one day become dangerous to Rome and were wealthy enough to be a tempting target. 

-Caesar then killed Pompey in Egypt

-Caesar moved swiftly to make himself the supreme ruler of the Republic 

-Caesar then became a Tribune 

- was named supreme pontiff 

-Caesar is an aristocrat

-He was also in the Senate 

-He had himself named dictator for a ten day term 

-Caesar showed respect to the senate, but didn't treat it well

-Caesar used his powers to fix problems in Rome

-Caesar gave land to the loyal soldiers

-extended roman citizenship 

-once he defeated the other places he would make the defeated people his people

-The senate was his only enemy 

-he was doing what the assembly wanted him to

-army loved him, assembly loved him, people loved him 

-senate decides they have had enough 

-Senators, March 15, invited him into senate, they all wore togas, pulled out long daggers, stabbed him to death right in the middle of the senate chambers 

-senators knew they were doing something dangerous, passed the knives around, and they all stabbed him

-Caesar got stabbed 23 times