Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar “I came, I saw, I conquered.” These are the words of the man who changed Roman history, Julius Caesar. Caesar was born in Rome on July 12 or 13, in the year 100 B.C.. His father Gaius Caesar, died when Caesar was 16 years old, and it was his mother Aurelia, who proved to be quite influential in his life. Caesar's family was part of Rome's original aristocracy, called patricians, although they were not rich or …showed first 75 words of 634 total…

…showed last 75 words of 634 total…put it into Rome to hopefully one day make it the greatest empire ever. Yet not everyone thought so, because on March 15, 44 B.C., a day known as the Ides of March, Caesar entered the Senate House. An assassination plot had been hatched by a group of 60 senators, including Gaius Cassius and Marcus Junius Brutus. As Caesar entered the Senate, he was stabbed 23 times. After Ceasar was assassinated, Rome experienced another 13 years of civil war.