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Aim: Cooper Needle

__Julius Caesar acting as a god__

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The assassination of Julius Caesar was very thought out and was meant to reach a common goal. 60 members of the senate saw the only solution to the end of his power and reign was to assassinate him. Many people today argue, “With his continual effort to adorn himself with the trappings of power, turned many of the senate against him”(“The Assassination of Julius...”). Overall they wanted him out of office and dead. They wanted this because he had “turned” his back towards the senate and enraged them. According to Wikipedia, “ Brutus began to conspire against Caesar with his brother…”(“Assassination of Julius Caesar”). Brutus was a part of the senate in fact he was one of the leaders of the mission to kill Caesar. The attack went on and killed Caesar and Brutus was injured. They conspirators were banished and brutus settled in Crete not long after. He then also, tried to take down Rome with his troops in Crete.

Historical: Sammy Ornelas

Image: __Statue of Julius Caesar__

The historical impacts of the acts of Brutus and the 30 plus Roman Republic Senators against Julius Caesar which ultimately ended in his own assassination was that he was backstabbed from Brutus. The historical impacts was when Brutus was forgiven by Julius Caesar, made governor of Gaul, and was made a praetor he still went back and essentially backstabbed Caesar after everything Caesar did for him. As the Historian stated, “ ... In the end, the story of Marcus Brutus is the story of the complexities of human choices. The ‘noblest of Romans’ ultimately betrayed his friend because he loved the republic more…”(“History’s Most Infamous Betrayers”). The connection between how Brutus still betrayed Caesar after everything he did for him and backstabbed him. When Brutus committed this act of betrayal it gave the definition of a backstabber which is tremendous, as it is today in our modern society. When Brutus and the other senate members assassinated Julius Caesar they were also the first people to backstab someone which recognized the idea of backstabbing in the later future and in the present. This made the act of backstabbing so tremendous because it was the first to ever happen.

Audience: Zach Miller

Brutus Bust Julius Caesar Bust

The events linked to these two men were affecting the people of Rome, and the Senate. Julius Caesar had been ruling over Rome for only two years when he was assassinated by Brutus and other conspirators. As Julius Caesar started building up a dictatorship many started to conspire against the ruler, “... many senators began to fear Caesar's growing power following his appointment as [|dictator in perpetuity] ”(“Julius Caesar”). According to Wikipedia, “Brutus was persuaded into joining the conspiracy against Caesar by the other senators...” (“Marcus Junius Brutus”). Julius Caesar had made a will that stated that the next to ruler would be his nephew Octavian, but if he had died Brutus would be the king. Caesar’s actions lead to the senate losing their fondness of him and conspirators to form against him. Brutus was convinced into joining the conspiracy of killing Caesar. Once the plan was executed and Caesar was dead the news had spread extremely fast leading to the people in the capital locking themselves in their house as Brutus and his companions celebrated what they had done. The death of Caesar affected the citizens of Rome because the new leader got them into many civil wars and the senate was severely punished by Rome but Octavian proved to be a better leader.

Cultural: Kenneth Burns



Pulling Caesar’s toga was the signal to begin the attack.

From 49-44 B.C, Julius Caesar had a number of impacts on the city of Rome. Caesar had a widespread of unemployment throughout the city of Rome. Caesar argued,” Only his genius offered the people of the empire peace and prosperity” (" [|The real story]..." ). This might be believed otherwise, but the senate have grown comfortable with their own power. The senate made Caesar the dictator of Rome because all of his military victories. As he became dictator Caesar was acting to god like and the senate had to do something because that kind of leadership would not help Rome. To persuade Brutus to act, they started a public-relations act. 3 men recruited about 60 other men to join them including Caesar's supporters. As Caesar sat down, his enemies took the stage. They all had daggers under their togas or their slaves’ baskets.