julius caesar and the gallic commentaries
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Julius Caesar and the Gallic Commentaries
Gallia (Gaul) is modern day France!
Gaul!
PROPAGANDA!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!! information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread
widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
8/9 YEARS OF FIGHTING BETWEEN ROMAN PEOPLE AND GALLIC PEOPLE. (59-50BCE)
CONQUEST IS ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN EPISODES IN ROMAN HISTORY, THANKS TO THE DETAILED WRITINGS OF CAESAR HIMSELF.
BEST ACCOUNT OF WARFARE EVER WRITTEN BY A ROMAN
Julius Caesar’s Consulship Ends
Julius Caesar is Consul in 59 BCE Consul = President. There were 2 in
ancient Rome. Because of a system of checks and
balances, a consul had to leave Rome and govern another province in the republic, so as not to get too much power.
Druids
Druids – Religious
leaders who controlled civil, legal
and educational
affairs throughout
Gaul.
Vercingetorix
Greatest general of the Gallic People
Siege at Alesia – 52 BCE
Deciding Battle of the War
The Gallic Conquest and its effects on the world.
After the war was over, Vercingetorix was imprisoned and taken to Rome and imprisoned for 6 years until he was lead through the streets in a triumphal procession and executed as a part of ceremony.
The immediate effects were that this conquest gave protection from Gallic and German invaders.
The Gallic Conquest and its effects on the world.
It fixed the boundaries from the Pyrenees Mts to the Rhine River and from the Alps to the Atlantic.
It allowed Greco-Italian culture to spread and thus most of Europe became Latinized rather than Germanized.
Our culture, our language, art, architecture and government is heavily influenced by Caesar’s invasion of Gaul.
Caesar Crosses the Rubicon Caesar was still not allowed back to Rome
to become consul again. So Caesar made the difficult decision to
cross the Rubicon River and march on Rome, declaring Civil War.( “Crossing the Rubicon” is a metaphor for having to make a difficult decision)
As he did so, he uttered “Alea Iacta Est” The die is cast.
Caesar is appointed “Dictator Perpetuum”.