https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p Julius Caesar en-us 2021-03-19 12:03:46 UTC 2026-03-25 23:12:50 UTC hello@padlet.com spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329398870 This was Caesar’s first political appointment and he did quite well. That being said Military Tribunes have virtually no power and Caesar served under Pompey to undo some of the changes Sula made years backdid quite well. That being said Military Tribunes have virtually no power and Caesar served under Pompey to undo some of the changes Sula made years back]]> 2021-03-19 12:06:24 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329398870 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329401217 This was the first mandatory office of the cursus honorum. You had to be elected successively to the offices of government starting with Quaestor, then Praetor, then Consul. Most never got past Quaestor and even fewer made it to Consul. Caesar’s Quaestorship placed him in Spain serving to stabilize the region.]]> 2021-03-19 12:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329401217 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329404222 An Aedile, or temple builder, was an optional office but was nearly mandatory for anyone wanting to reach the top. Aediles kept the public baths and temples in working order as well as organizing and funding all the games and holidays. Caesar served his term with another Aedile (2 were elected yearly) named Bibulus. This was a massive turning point for Caesar. Firstly because his acts placed him squarely in the populist camp — solidifying his political position — and secondly because this Aedilship allowed Caesar to become a household name. Caesar borrowed and spent several fortunes on games, throwing the most lavish and impressive games in decades.
- caused him to go into debt]]> 2021-03-19 12:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329404222 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329406873 This was the top religious office in Rome and was a lifetime appointment. This placed Caesar at the top of the religious institutions in Rome; this position would later enable him to cheat reforms through the Senate. You are not supposed to be charged with crimes]]> 2021-03-19 12:09:17 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329406873 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329407930 Praetors at this time served mostly as judges. This was another big step in Caesar's political career. A Praetor had this thing called imperium granted to them. Imperium meant you were the embodiment of the Roman state and this you could not be charged with a crime — after all, you cannot charge the Roman state with a crime.]]> 2021-03-19 12:09:41 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329407930 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329410269 One of the perks of being granted imperium is that after your term was up you got to hold a governorship of a province. This was a great way to pad your bank account and maybe go win some martial glory. Caesar did both and was granted a Triumph by the senate. A Triumph was the crowning of a man political career. It was recognition by the senate and the Roman people of your greatness. You had to conquer land for Rome and then your army had to hail you imperator (meaning victorious general). Then the senate had to agree to the Triumph. Generals were not allowed to enter Rome — this is important — unless they were entering Rome for one day under Triumph. The general would parade around Rome with his army, some paintings, and some slaves/enemy nobles captured in the conquest.Caesar came back to Spain to triumph and run for Consul. In order to run for Consul, you had to enter Rome as a free citizen and declare your intentions to run. As long as Caesar still held military command he could not enter Rome. In order to get a Triumph, you had to be a general. The plan was for Caesar to Triumph around Rome, then leave, then come back into Rome as a citizen a couple of days later (thus dissolving his military command) and declare his intentions to run for Consul. The senate — trying to make it so he cannot run — scheduled his Triumph after the elections. So Caesar had to either enter Rome as a citizen, giving up his military command and thus giving up his Triumph or not run for election. Caesar shocked everyone when he gave up his Triumph to run for election. Such a thing had never happened and it shows Caesar's commitment to his political career. ]]> 2021-03-19 12:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329410269 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329417623 This office was Caesar’s life long goal. 2 Consuls were elected yearly. The men with the top 2 votes served together, alternating months. Caesar served with his rival, and old Aedile friend, Bibulus. Rome was facing a serious issue with land reform. Typically middle-class Romans were supposed to own small plots of land and work them for a living. Rich Romans had bought up all the land, forcing the middle class into the city where there were not enough jobs. This, in turn, meant that these people needed welfare to survive, placing a strain on the public funds. Caesar intended to fix this by buying up land from the rich and giving it to the poor. Bibulus intended to veto all of it. Caesar came into office day 1 with this bill in hand to present to the senate. He made the necessary changes to get it passed, but Cato came out and filibustered it. If a law was passed it would have to be posted in the public forum for 27 days, to be voted on by the citizens to get final approval. The senate’s plan was to hold off, so that when the bill came into law next month, Bibulus would be Consul and could ruin everything. Caesar got upset and just skipped the senate, posting it the public forum. Bibulus came to debate Caesar and veto it, but upon trying to do so, an angry crowd attack Bibulus and dumped poop on him. The bill was voted on by the public and passed. Then next month rolled around when Bibulus was Consul. He called the senate to order and condemned Caesar, saying the bill was illegal because he vetoed it and Caesar used mob violence to silence him (all true). Caesar said he did not hear the veto over the roar of the crowd. Nonetheless, Bibulus pressed for Caesar to be removed from office. After Bibulus spoke to accuse Caesar, and Caesar spoke in his defense, the previous Consuls got to speak. Two of them were Pompey and Crassus — the richest and most famous men in Rome. They were allies of Caesar and had helped him his entire career. In return, Caesar was to help them pass laws they needed. Once the senate heard these two men speak in Caesar's defense they were all terrified of Caesar and no one would speak out against him. Bibulus would be humiliated and ran home; he would not return to the senate-house for the term, giving Caesar total control for the entire year. Caesar then reformed how governorships worked, helped out some tax collectors for Crassus, and got Pompey's conquests ratified and his veterans settled on the land. ]]> 2021-03-19 12:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329417623 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329436474 Caesar again found himself governor of not one but two provinces. Typically, you were given a governorship for a year or two but Caesar was given 5-year terms of Proconsul. Later he would get his friends in the government (Pompey and Crassus) to extend his governorship another 5 years, making it a total of 10. He would undertake his legendary 8-year conquest of Gaul, invasion of Britain, and invasion of Germany in this time. Remember how Caesar skipped the senate when passing that bill? Well the senate wanted to press charges for that — as well as for illegal warfare. Caesar had imperium though, so he could not be charged as long as he was governor or Consul. You had to have 10-year gaps between Consulships so Caesar wanted to be governor right up until he could run for Consul. The senate attempted to block this by saying that when Caesar had extended his term as governor 5 additional years, he never specified when that additional 5 years started. The senate said it started when the bill was passed; Caesar said it started when his original 5-year term was up. If the senate was right, that would mean there would be a 1-year gap between his governorship and when he was allowed to run for Consul — thus allowing the senate to charge him with crimes.

Caesar refused to give up his command, and the senate declared him an enemy of the state. This is when Caesar marched on Rome and started the civil war against Pompey (who had turned on him). Caesar won the resulting civil war.]]> 2021-03-19 12:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329436474 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329440779 Remember when Caesar was cheated out of his Triumphs? Well, he got three of them here, so I guess that makes things even.]]> 2021-03-19 12:20:44 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329440779 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329441821 Caesar would originally be granted this position for a year. Then it was extended, and then it was extended again for the entirety of Caesar’s life.]]> 2021-03-19 12:21:05 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329441821 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329443132 Caesar was assassinated and succeeded by his posthumously adopted son and heir Octavian who would become Augustus — Rome’s first emperor.]]> 2021-03-19 12:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329443132 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329450171 A band of Cilician Pirates in the Aegean Sea captured Julius when he was on his way to study oratory in Rome. Caesar simply refused to behave like a captive. When the pirates told him that they had set his ransom at the sum of 20 talents, he laughed at them for not knowing who it was they had captured and suggested that 50 talents would be a more appropriate amount. He then sent his entourage out to gather the money and settled in for a period of captivity. Caesar made himself at home among the pirates, bossing them around and shushing them when he wanted to sleep. He made them listen to the speeches and poems that he was composing in his unanticipated downtime and berated them as illiterates if they weren’t sufficiently impressed. He would participate in the pirates’ games and exercises, but he always addressed them as if he were the commander and they were his subordinates. From time to time he would threaten to have them all crucified. They took it as a joke from their overconfident, slightly nutty captive. After 38 days, the ransom was delivered and Caesar went free.


- establishes his worth 
- shows no mercy to enemies- crucify
- organize and recruit people]]> 2021-03-19 12:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1329450171 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1342379720 She gave birth to Caesarion, the only male heir Caesar ever had, on June 24, 47 B.C.]]> 2021-03-23 12:02:28 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1342379720 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1342397647 He was born to a Patrician family.]]> 2021-03-23 12:07:20 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1342397647 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1342420706 Ended in Alesia. These were them defeating the tribes around the area to get more land for Rome. He was fighting the Barbarians. He chose to go to gaul.]]> 2021-03-23 12:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1342420706 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1342453922 In his will he left al to his nephew. Anthony and Lepidus wanted some of the power so the three of them formed a Triumvirate.]]> 2021-03-23 12:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1342453922 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1342463504 They go and fight the people who killed Caesar and they won. They got all of that land as well. They split the land into 3 parts and Octavian, Caesar's nephew got the least of the land. ]]> 2021-03-23 12:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1342463504 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1342475408 He meets her in Tarsus because he asks to meet  her there and the start to fall in love. They go back to Alexandria together. They have 3 kids. ]]> 2021-03-23 12:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1342475408 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1342551877 The Parthians invaded the Roman Empire on the east which is Anthony's side. He is fighting a civil war with his wife do he can't do anything about it. He makes piece with Octavian so he marries Octavia Octavian's sister after his wife dies.]]> 2021-03-23 12:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1342551877 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1352364628 June 24, 47 B.C. It was a dangerous time for the queen: Cleopatra's alliance with the Roman ruler made her unpopular in her own country, and this sentiment only increased after Caesarion was born. The Roman soldiers stationed in Egypt kept Cleopatra under their guard, but when Caesarion was one year old, the queen fled with him to Rome and back into Caesar's arms.]]> 2021-03-25 12:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1352364628 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1352371566 Caesar is 16 and he marries Cornelia and they will have a daughter named Julia. Didn't listen to what his parents said.]]> 2021-03-25 12:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1352371566 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1352421002 He enter in with Pompey and Crassus because he needs their help.]]> 2021-03-25 12:18:54 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1352421002 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1352431049 He wrote a series of letters about the Gallic Wars to Rome. He wrote in 3rd person. PROPAGANDA ]]> 2021-03-25 12:21:27 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1352431049 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1352439823 The Triumvirate had broken up. Told to come back to Rome alone. Decides to take some of his army. As soon as he crosses the Rubicon he had broken the law which is the point of no return. ]]> 2021-03-25 12:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1352439823 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1352461837 She was the richest women in the world becuase she ruled Egypt.]]> 2021-03-25 12:29:17 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1352461837 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1352616278 - In capsy's tomb when they were moving it, they found an engraved in the tablet about Caesar's death. It said, "When ever the bones of Capsys shall be moved, it will come to pass that a son of Ilium shall be slain at the hands of is kindred, and presently avenged at heavy cost to Italy.
- the herds of horses had let loose and refused to graze and wept constantly right before his death
- the soothsayer Spurinna warned him to beware of danger that would come in the ides of March
- on the day before there was a king bird that flew into the hall that was attacked by all different types of birds 
- Caesar the night before dreamed about him flying above the clouds and Calpurnia watched their house fall and Caesar being murdered. 
- a note was handed to him about how he was going to be murdered 
- the day before at dinner with Marcus they talked about which type of death was most desired]]> 2021-03-25 13:02:14 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1352616278 spaths25 https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1352616825 - a pyre was erected in the campus martius and a rostra was placed made after the temple of Venus Genetrix
- gifts were directed to go to the campus and placed in whatever order
- the words from contest for the arms was sung
- the words from Electra of Atilius were sung too
- the consul Antonius recited the decree of the senate instead of a eulogy
- the bier was carried by magistrates and ex-magistrates
- the musicians tore off their robes and threw them in fire 
- veterans adorned themselves for the funeral and women
- women offered jewels and robes of their children 
- many foreigners came to honor him
- commons after the funeral went to Brutus's house and killed Cornelius Cinna who had disrespected Caesar and hung him and put his head on a spear in the square]]> 2021-03-25 13:02:20 UTC https://padlet.com/spaths25/bgysmsig0ilnf31p/wish/1352616825