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I will be taking my test June 2 from 8:00-8:50.

• To keep the plebs happy, the poet Juvenal said he anxiously hopes for bread and circuses
• Tiberius realized the advantages of courting the plebeians 
• Soldiers loyalty was to their military leader
• Julius Caesar from 100 - 44 BCE
• very successful general
• conquered territory of Gaul
• made Pompey and Craccus in high places
• three men above formed the first triumvirate
• "crossing the rubicon" is crossing the point of no return
• Ceaser served as consul for one year
• Ceaser appoints himself governor of gaul
• Pompey is jealous and becomes Ceasers rival
• In 44 B.C. he names himself dictator
• Ceasers reforms granted citizenship to people in provinces
• Ceasers reforms expanded the senate, adding his friends
• Ceasers reforms created jobs for the poor, especially through public works projects
• Ceasers reforms increased pay for soldiers and started colonies for those without land could own property
• “Sic semper tyrannis!”- “Thus always to tyrants!”
• Ceaser assassinated because of too much power
• lured into the senate and stabbed 23 times
• Even Brutus was the killer
• the end of republic