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Julius Caesar was born July 12/13,100 B.C. He was in the Roman military, became a political leader, and was one of the most influential men in history. He played a very important role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Julius Caesar was born into a patrician family, rich roman family. He was the dictator of Rome from 59 B.C.- 44 B.C. who was assassinated by Marcus Julius Brutus and other members of the government on the Ides of March ( March 15, 44 B.C.). The assassination of Julius Caesar led to another Roman civil war.
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| Augustus was the-great nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar. Octavian rose to power when he inherited Julius Caesar's name and wealth at the age of nineteen. He then joined forces with Marc Antony and Lepidus to form the Second Triumvirate and to defeat the Republican forces of Brutus and Cassius. When Lepidus got removed, Augustus clashed with Atony in a Civil War and at the end it left Augutus, the sole ruler of Rome in 31 B.C. Unlike like his great-uncle Caesar, he knew how to rule Rome without offending the senate, which allowed him to hold power for the next forty-five years. Augustus was the first Emperor of Rome and possibly the greatest. Back to the top
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Caligula was the third Roman Emperor. Caligula's reign was very short. As a roman empire he squandered, wasted, his fortune on public entertainment, building projects, murdered most of his relatives, had people killed or tortured while he ate, made his horse a consul, declared himself as a god, and had temples erected. In 41 he was assassinated by his officers of his guard.
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Claudius was the fourth emperor. Claudius proved himself as a sturdy emperor, despite the fact he was a feeble man, a weak man. He is distinctively remembered for conquering and colonizing Britain; and for improving the civil administration of Rome. He died under weird circumstances. Some historians said that his wife poisoned him in order for her son, Nero, to become emperor.
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Nero was the adopted son of Claudius, the emperor before him. He was best known as the the man who fiddled while Rome burned. In 64 AD a great fire swept through Rome. It was said that Nero ordered the fires set, and he watched pretty much the whole city get burned while singing a song about the destruction of Troy. In 68 CE he was forced to commit suicide. He was then replaced by emperor Galba.
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Galba proclaimed himself in his political and military career as many things one being a Praetor. Praetor was a ranking second to a consul. A few months after he began his reign he led a rebellion led by Otho began. During the rebellion Galba was killed. Otho then succeeded him as emperor.
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Otho named himself emperor during his rebellion when Galba died. During the rebellion, when he made himself emperor, Vitellius had proclaimed himself in Cologne and was on his way to Rome. Later, Otho was defeated and he killed himself.
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