1. Rise of Military Dictators
Julius Caesar

2. Objectives
List the steps of the decline of the empire.

3. Key terms/People
Dictator
Julius Caesar
Brutus and Cassius

4. Rise of Military Dictators
Gaius Marius
Recruits soldiers from the homeless poor
Promised them land and money after the war

5. Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Marius’s greatest rival –fought a bloody war
Sulla captured Rome in 82 B.C.
He became a **dictator--- person with absolute power
Only suppose to be this for 6 months…went 2 years

6. First Triumvirate Triumvirate---rule by 3 1. Gnaues Pompey
2. Marcus Licinius Crasus
3. Julius Caesar
Nothing in common except they didn’t like the senate or each other.

7. Julius Caesar
Steps to power:
Takes control of Gaul

8. 49 B.C., Caesar is ordered home to Rome without his army
He brought his army anyway…civil war breaks out
Caesar defeats Pompey

9. Caesar returns to Rome as the Republic’s greatest hero.
He became the sole ruler—titles of dictator and consul

10. Reorganized government and lowered taxes
Moved army veterans to new colonies and gave them farmland
Granted citizenship to people outside Italy
Started a new and accurate calendar—
Julian calendar

11. 44B.C. Named dictator for life
Caesar killed March 15th (Ides of March)
44 B.C.
Brutus and Cassius thought he was trying to become king.
Why?
**He wore the color of royalty, purple

12. Objectives List the steps of the decline of the Roman empire.
Civil wars, slave revolts, poor leadership
Explain how the Roman emperors promoted peace
Made all provinces follow the rule, created a civil service, allowed talented people take part in government.

13. Key terms/People Dictator Person with complete power Julius Caesar
Had legions in Gaul fight with him /killed on the Ides of March..March 15, 44
Brutus and Cassius
Killed Caesar, along with other senators, because they thought he wanted to become king.

14. Rise of Military Dictators