Heograpiya NG Roma: Julius Ceasar
Heograpiya NG Roma: Julius Ceasar
Heograpiya NG Roma: Julius Ceasar
JULIUS CEASAR
(July 100 BC 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general, statesman, Consul, and notable
author of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman
Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey formed
a political alliance that was to dominate Roman politics for several years. Their attempts to amass
power through populist tactics were opposed by the conservative ruling class within the Roman
Senate, among them Cato the Younger with the frequent support of Cicero. Caesar's victories in
the Gallic Wars, completed by 51 BC, extended Rome's territory to the English Channel and
the Rhine. Caesar became the first Roman general to cross both when he built a bridge across the
Rhine and conducted the first invasion of Britain.
CONSTANTINE
Also known as Constantine I or Saint Constantine, was Roman Emperor from 306 to 337.
Constantine was the son of Flavius Valerius Constantius, a Roman army officer, and his
consort Helena. His father became Caesar, the deputy emperor in the west in 293. Constantine was
sent east, where he rose through the ranks to become a military tribune under the
emperors Diocletian and Galerius. In 305, Constantius was raised to the rank of Augustus, senior
western emperor, and Constantine was recalled west to campaign under his father in Britannia.
Acclaimed as emperor by the army at Eburacum (York) after his father's death in 306, Constantine
emerged victorious in a series of civil wars against the emperors Maxentius and Licinius to become
sole ruler of both west and east by 324.
PLEBIANS
the plebs was the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as
determined by the census. Shopkeepers, crafts people, and skilled or unskilled workers might
be plebeian (/plbin/; Latin: plebeius). From the 4th century BC or earlier, some of the most
prominent and wealthy Roman families, as identified by their gens name, were of plebeian status
(see Roman naming conventions). Literary references to the plebs, however, usually mean the
ordinary citizens of Rome as a collective, as distinguished from the elitea sense retained by
"plebeian" in English. In the very earliest days of Rome, plebeians were any tribe without advisers to
the King. In time, the word - which is related to the Greek word for crowd, plethos - came to mean
the common people.