Gaius Marius

In 133 BC, Rome was a democracy. A hundred years later it’s to be governed by an emperor. At the end of the second century BC, The Romans were sovereign. Rich people ruled politics. In order to become annually elected ‘magistrates’ they were like the civilian police but with a little more power. The voting system was rigged for the rich people, so they can have more influence over the poor.All magistrates of The Roman Republic continually deteriorated throughout the 5th century to the 30’s BC,…

Gaius Julius Caesar, also known as Julius Caesar, was a Roman dictator and general. He was born on July 12th, 100 BCE in Rome, Italy. He is supposedly related to the Trojan Prince Aeneas, a Greek Hero and Mythical God. He was also the nephew of the famous Roma general, Marius. After his Uncle’s death, Sulla, his uncle’s enemy, was going to seize Rome by force. Caesar’s life was in jeopardy. In 67 BCE Caesar launched a successful political and military career. Caesar studied public speaking in…

101 Parkland College – Sungguk Chris Choi THE TRAGEDY OF EMPEROR: JULIUS CAESAR Gaius Julius Caesar, called Kaiser later, is the first emperor of the powerful Roman Empire. He is one of best emperor in the Great Rome’s history. In estimation, Julius Caesar was born in Rome on July 12 or 13 100 BC. His family was not that rich but they were nobility family, patrician roots. His aunt Julia was the wife of Gaius Marius, who’s the leader of the popular faction at that moment. It is known very…

Gaius Marius was from a non senatorial family. (notes) Quintus Caecilius Metellus brought him to North Africa in 109bc as a legate. Marius had been a client of Metellus but had broken that relationship. Metellus had forgiven him and brought him to Africa anyway. (notes) The Romans were fighting against Jugurtha the king of Numidia. He was Masinissa's son and had murdered his two brothers. (notes) The war went badly as the Numidians used guerilla warfare against the Romans. (notes) Marius asked…

full citizenship, lately they had been satisfied to grant only second class, or Latin, citizenship. Unfortunately, the Italian allies were not nearly as satisfied with this and were agitating for full rights. We have already seen how this issue cost Gaius Gracchus his life. When another Roman, Marcus Livius Drusus, proposed full citizenship and was assassinated, Italian frustration boiled over into open rebellion. This revolt, known as the Social War, or war of the allies (9l-88 B.C.E.), saw…

1. The Etruscans were a civilization located by the Romans, who spoke a completely different language from any other civilization. The Etruscans taught the Romans how to build arches and introduced the gladiator games to them. They also taught the Romans their way of divination, morals, religion, and introduced the Greek alphabet to them. The Etruscans are historically important because they made Rome a true city. 2. A Pyrrhic victory is a victory achieved at too great a cost. A famous Pyrrhic…

almost died. The institution of the government under one ruler was an obligation to keep the progression of the empire. Augustus demonstrated to be a man who is great and mighty enough to control the mob, Senate, and Legions. The men of power like Gaius Julius Caesar and Octavianus August rose beyond all the great Romans in the political opponents, reform a corrupt government and to have the system remain stabilized in confusion. The Fall of the Republic was…

three leaders). According to some historians, the population under the rule of Rome increased from 4 million in 250 BC to 60 million in 30 BC, which illustrates how Rome’s power expanded during this period (Gibbon 1829). In the second century BC, Gaius Marius transformed the Roman army into a professional army, in which the loyalty of the soldiers of a legion was to be declared and a general who was to lead the men. This step in militant innovation, combined with the…

However government was nothing without the power of the military. Gaius Marius was elected consul for 107 BC and was voted to go into Numidia.5Marius noticed that there was a shortage of men in the armies so he decided to do the unthinkable. He forced the proletarii, the lower class of the urban poor who owned nothing, to…

Marius was an innovative military general who defeated the German barbarians and led the battle of Spain. Thereafter, Marius was elected consul six times consecutively, which was against the Roman law of holding office —to be re-elected into the consul after 10 years had passed. Meanwhile, Sulla, his lieutenant…