Julius Caesar

We were underlining a bunch of stuff today and here they are:

• crossing the Rubicon: after you are content and committed to something, there is no turning back. the Rubicon River was a river in between Rome (the actual city), and other enemy cities.
• He was very powerful, but the poor people liked him, the assembly liked him, and the soldiers liked him, the only ones who didn't really like him were the senate.
• Proletarian: In ancient Rome,a propertyless but voting citizen.
• With the changes in Rome's society and politics, the character of its armies and their commanders also changed.
• Instead of the farmer-soldiers of old, it was now landless and propertyless proletarians who were drafted to fill the ranks of the legions.
• But Rome's citizen-soldiers were now "semi-professionals" who fought largely in the hope of bettering themselves through pay, loot, promotion, and above all grants of land or money to provide them with a living when they were discharged.
• Julius Caesar came from an old patrician family that had come down in the world, and he entered the city's politics as a young man determined to regain the fame and power of his ancestors.
• In the socials struggles, he sided with the poorer citizens and used his influence with them to advance his own cause.
• In 60 B.C. he began to collaborate Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey), an offer promoted by Sulla who had conquered many eastern Mediterranean lands.
• triumvirate: In ancient Rome, an alliance of three politicians that enabled them to control the Republic's decision making.
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