Naturally, as a member of a patrician family, he didn’t enter the forces as a common soldier. Influential friends managed to have him released, but it was obvious that Caesar would have to leave Rome for a while, in order to let things cool down.Īnd so Caesar left Rome to join the army. But it appears that Sulla chose to spare him, as he did some others.
Sulla was leader of Rome and was seeking to wipe out any Marian sympathizers. Further he began building a network of connections, some of which with politicians currently out of favour (the supporters of Marius).īut these were dangerous contacts to have. His first step was to marry into a yet more distinguished family. Instead Caesar now set out to better himself and Rome. When, Caesar was fifteen years old, his father Lucius died, with him died the fatherly expectations that Caesar should engage on a modest political career. Already at a young age he had realized that money was the key to Roman politics as the system had by his time suffered increasing corruption and he felt it was time to put a stop to it. However, Caesar was not like other Romans. The Social Wars created turmoil all over Italy and Marius and Sulla were the great fascist leaders of the time.Īs a member of an old aristocratic family Julius was expected, at the completion of his education, to assume a modest office on the lower end of the long ladder of the Roman political career. The increased size of the empire had led to cheap slave labour flooding into the country which in turned made many Roman workers unemployed. 14 Caesar crosses the Rubicon, takes RomeĬaesar grew up in a period of unrest and civil war in Rome.10 Caesar launches attacks on Germany and Britain.5 Caesar allies with Pompey and Crassus ‘The First Triumvirate’.
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