NOTES FROM POWERPOINT OF ANCIENT ROME

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Poor Plebs

1. The poet Juvenal, said the people of ancient Rome (plebs) "anxiously hopes for two things: bread and circuses"
2. Bread and the entertainment which was the Circus Maximus and the Colosseum, partly to keep them alive, and partly to keep them quiet 
3. Tiberius Gracchus recognized the advantages of courting the plebians
4. Military generals worked that angle and lead an army that conquers a land, then give them a share in the spoils
5. Soldiers' loyalty was to their military leader, not necessarily to Rome or the Republic

Julius Caesar

1. Lived from (100-44 BCE)
2. Highly successful general 
3. He conquered the huge territory of Gaul
4. Made common folks happy
5. Made friends in high places
6. Pompey (a general who conquered Syria and Palestine)
7. Crassus (the richest man in Rome, one of the richest men in all history)
8. These three men formed the First Triumvirate ("rule of three men")