How did Caesar Conquer Gaul and Destroy the Republic? - History of the Roman Empire - Part 8
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- How did Caesar Conquer Gaul and Destroy the Republic?
Caesar had been appointed as dictator back in Rome despite being in and out of Italy as a whole to engage in campaigns in the Middle East and Africa as well as his endeavors in Asia. He was also repeatedly named consul and his dictatorship renewed multiple times, having pardoned his enemies in the Senate and thus laying claim to very few opponents at home. Once he finally returned to Rome again in the 40s BC, Caesar began to roll out new legal reforms, even changing the Roman calendar. He was essentially the sole authority in the crumbling Roman Republic if one could even still call it that, holding the titles of dictator, tribune, and consul
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Where is part 9
@@fireabassefa670 Just released!
In my honest opinion Caesar isn't the actual reason the republic fell....the true reason the republic had fallen was due to bad government working and the senate not willing to do what should of been done for the republic and people of Rome.
I'm a simple man. I see Julius Caesar in a historical title YT video and I watch
I feel you
All my homies love Julius Caesar
Facts
Same
Hahahaha real shit
After studying roman history for most of my life and I am 72 years old , this documentary really impressed me. I first became interested in 1965 by reading a Classics Illustrated (so called comic book titled Caesars Conquests) and have been at it ever since.
Thank you so much for your good work my friends.
Looking forward to more good work. And I'm sure it will be there.
Nice to know all ages think about Rome constantly
You're a top bloke man, hell yeah
I like Roman history. It's so interesting.
He saved Rome is what he did, and in this house, Julius Caesar was a hero.
He killed Rome.
@@F40PH-2CATno he didn't
@@F40PH-2CAT you have to cut the weeds for the flowers to bloom
@@F40PH-2CATI dig F40phs you must be a Illinois man
13:33 "He was a Consul of Rome!"
If you know that reference then you're cool.
Rome forever:)
That series was the best👌 Still wondering where Titus Pullo and Caesarion were going in the last scene 🤔
@@KnowledgiaAlthough , not that it matters . He wasn't born on the 1st of July , he was born on the 13th of July . ♑️✍️🇸🇯🇦🇺
Thanks
What's ironic is that as the High Priest of Jupiter, Caesar was not even allowed to look upon an army, yet alone enlist. But when Sulla stripped him of his priesthood, it allowed him to pursue a military career. Basically Caesar might not have become as powerful as he did had Sulla not removed him from cushy job as a priest in Rome.
It's funny that he held the same lived in that district on there eye's and can't see that it never changed Rome still serves the same god's they are just pretending Jupiter/Saturn is the sone of god and sadly leading millions in sin...
@@nekmewxelagrowing6432Jupiter was their king of The Gods. Just cause they dont worship the Abrahamic God Jehovah aka Allah doesn't mean they're sinning.
@@brandonselitetv1436 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣yes it means they are sinning
@@danielating1316 to ur God yes. But They worshipped Jupiter. Not some Poor carpenter like Jesus or a fat lazy King like Herod.
@@brandonselitetv1436 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣so the mythical Jupiter is better than historical figures? You must be incredibly stupid.
So when talking about Ceasar's reasons to rebel, it is key to know Consuls (top political position), Proconsuls (governorship after consulship), and some other positions had political immunity. The Senate Cato, in particular, pledged to charge Ceasar for crimes he had committed during his Consulship. That's the main reason Ceasar rebeled he simply wouldn't let himself end up a criminal and his acts outlawed
You didn't mention how Pompey was married to Caesar's daughter, Julia. She was thirty years his junior (as a matter of fact he was older than her father, who as a result of the marriage become Pompey's father in law). Despite their age difference, Julia apparently was able to charm Pompey and they had a happy marriage, that was until Julia died in childbirth 54 BC. Her death was extremely consequential as it ended any comradery between Caesar and Pompey, as the two were no longer bounded by marriage and began plotting against one another, which ultimately led to civil war. Had Julia lived then Caesar and Pompey may have continued to work together, ruling the Republic as allies, and civil war may have been avoided.
Thank you
Learned this in the HBO serie's "Rome"
Legendary times! I`ve heard the story a thousand times, still can`t get enough of it. Many consider him the founder of Western Europe.
no who does that?
N..no
Thats Charlemagne
I would like this Rome series ongoing, but also i would like to see series like this but ancient greece from Minoans 1200bc to fall against Rome 😊.
Apparently when Caesar went back for the pirates he granted them one act of kindness due to their not-so-bad treatment of him while he was their captive: he had their throats slit before they were crucified to avoid suffering.
As everyone knows, Gaul was never fully conquered. In the north a small village was never captured, led by Chief Vitalstatistix.
I know that you took it from Asterix and Obelix but great chief of Gaul really existed and his name was Vercingetorix
You really gonna be the *achkuatlly* guy huh..? Lame, rations reduced by a third.
Who me? @@cjclark1208
Do not forget Ambiorix.
@@cjclark1208I thought it was interesting he wasn’t saying it in an annoying way
I hope he talks about octavius being loved by Cesar’s soldiers in his next Rome video
"My father dies on this floor. Right there, stabbed 23 times, butchered by men he called his friends."
"Who will tell me that is not murder, who will tell my legions who love Ceasar as I do that is not murder"
The second triumvirate did not include Decimus Junius Brutus. It was Mark Antony, Octavius and Lepidus.
but Mark Antony, Octavius are the only ones we rly care about
Caesar didn’t destroy the Republic, he freed the empire. 😉
Great video!
That's because he's the Senate
Reading the title and staring at the thumbnail how the arrows pointed at Gaul it gave me an impression of how he obliterated Gaul
Also, the Republic was doomed to failure during the Marian proscription era and especially later when Sulla had his turn at proscriptions and his constitutional reforms.
Sulla thought he was closing the door for everyone except for the conservatives in the Senate when he rewrote the Constitution, but his reforms were short sighted and in fact enabled the very things that he wanted to crush.
Marian started the unraveling and Sulla made it a sure thing
And even before the Marian era, there was the perpetual conflict between the Optimates and Populares and their precursors, the Patricians and conservatives who wanted to preserve the status quo vs the Plebians and liberals who wanted to change the status quo. The Gracchi brothers for example advocated for Plebian land reforms and more rights for Rome's Italian allies...but were assassinated by Roman senators who thought their legal actions were both too radical and unconstitutional.
And from the beginning of the Republic, the Plebians started with very little rights and had to fight for their rights over and over again. The Plebians had their "Secessio plebis," where they would withdraw from the city, go on strike, sometimes riot, and in [rarer] cases would launch a military revolt.
I've literally just started your roman history series last night with the part one being released over two years ago
This time period, it's events and characters were masterfully recorded in HBO's miniseries ROME from back in 2005.. If you haven't already, highly suggest a watch!
What a fantastic video on a fascinating series of events!
Great artwork.
Nice video! Generally superficial coverage of events but well produced and clearly articulated.
this was very well presented. Ive been waiting for this for a veryery long time .
I’m really curious to see how you’ll portray the Crisis of the Third Century and Aurelian The Restorer of The World
Aureillian assasinated Gallienus. Tried to dump Sol Invictus on everyone. Dwstroyed part of Alexandria Library. By his time Rome was nearly finished anyway. Diadochi of Ptolemy, Selucia and Makedonia as well as Ancient Greecw was where real magic and history of life was at not Late rome which Constantine and Alexander Severus desteoyed!
this was very well presented
Love your Videos mate, keep up the good Work
I love Roman and Greek history
I love history. ;)
nominally the Republic persisted de jure until the 235 AD. However, it was de facto with Sulla, Caesar-Pompeo and later Octavian that it was halted de facto, not just Caesar. However, an averaged Roman of that time would had appreciated such a peaceful rest finally imposed by the Princeps.
I don’t think so given that 235 BC was the immediate aftermath of the First Punic War.
@@LuisBrito-ly1ko after Christ of course. Ad it was a misspelling. I correct
Sharing this already!!
I loved this video, didnt watched with full atention, but learned some new things!!!!
I do very much enjoy your narration also.
Your channel is amazing
The Republic was already dying long before Ceasar grew to manhood. For Rome to survive - it had to transform. Caesar began the process and his adopted son Augustus completed it.
I've no doubt he would have found a way to smash the Parthian Empire, destroy the Germanic tribes and maybe secure Rome from external threat for centuries. How different the world might have been but for the Ides of March.
He could not have. It is easy to visualize a battlefield position. It is harder but just as important to visualize a political position.
He had no capability to keep his enemies from hating him and plotting against him. He could not placate them enough to prevent assassination attempts.
Powerful empires today such as Disney simply do not experience assassinations because they practice panem et circensis with religious zeal. It is imperative to concern oneself with not being assassinated.
He was good enough at conquest but not good enough at not being assassinated.
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>Kills Caesar because he is a tyrant
>Caesar becomes a god
You forgot to mention his campaign in Pontus. Aslo nice and cool video. I am waiting for second part of skanderbeg.
new episode so fast how cool.
I respect what Caeser and guys like Hannibal or Nepoleon did, because they werent born as kings like Alexander. Had to work their way up, with the same chances as anyone else.
Every dynasty has its origin and its founder... ;) And even if someone was born into a royal family, it doesn't mean that they had it easy- Some were not born as heirs/successors, others were born into a very impoverished and small kingdom and created an empire out of it. Philip II of Macedon, for example, accomplished more than Caesar...a completely unheeded figure today. He created a world empire (which Alexander only took over). At the time of Philip's youth, the Macedonian kingdom did not even exist - it was a small occupied territory that did not have much importance (wealth, culture, advancement).... after the death of Philip II, it was the most powerful state in the world. Similarly, Cyrus II was born into a royal family - but it was also an insignificant and vassal state, and Cyrus turned it into a world empire (and there would be more such examples).
BTW Hannibal was not a king (and there were plenty of great military leaders - non-royal - in history), not to mention that Hannibal was born into one of the most prominent Carthaginian families and the leader of society at the time. And there is not much to admire about Napoleon.
Hannibal, Caesar, and Napoleon were all essentially nobility from rich families though. Not that the first two aren't two of my favorite people in history, but they weren't exactly common folk. A common man wouldn't have 50K to give pirates for his freedom so he can leave and hire an army to come back and kill them lol. North African peasants weren't being brought into the temple by their general father so they can swear a blood oath to destroy the Romans (Hannibal). They were definitely bad ass people though.
@johndarcangelo6893 ok but my point is there were a lot of nobility, not just born with a claim to be king. At most it could give them is a start, but to turn it into being one of the most powerful people in the world is just insane.
As much as I like Alfred the great or Alexander, they were succeeded into it. Still had to claim it and hold it but the difficulty is wayyy different.
Like Octavia is a Caesar with a head start and he became the best empire ever in Rome imo
@@johndarcangelo6893
Well that was after he achieved something though. The video literally said Sulla stripped him and his family of everything and had to leave among the lower classes of Rome when he could return.
So…
@@LuisBrito-ly1ko His Maternal family was still wealthy and their connections and influence are why he was ultimately spared and given opportunity later on. It's not like he was thrown out into the wild. I'm not hating Caesar I'm just saying the common man didn't have his opportunities.
more please
Could you put your rome series into one connected video when complete or playlist ?
Totally brutal,good friends!!!
Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍
Don't go the Senate Julius!
Would be great to see a video of all of the prior threats the republic had, since it seems like it was a long series of events that led to the fall of the republic.
They made a Video about the Problems of the Republik before Caesar 9 days ago
Telling the pirates your ransom should be much higher, because you are really important, logically kinda makes sense. Reason behind it being, that if they'll get paid more for you, they will most likely take better care of you.
Cesar did slice the Pirates throats before nailing them to the Cross , Cesar liked the Pirates he showed them Mercy 😂. You left out Pompey married Cesar’s Daughter and when she died that severed Pompey’s ties with Cesar
With his assassination, it opened the door for Octavian/Augustus to transform Rome into an Empire. As I cover in my video on Augustus the people were willing to accept a n authoritarian system if it created stability "pax romana"
Well Caesar himself already transform Rome into empire (he was key, and that transformation stopped with his murder). Octavian "only" continued and sucseed Caesar in his endeavors...except that Augustus never OFFICIALLY established a monarchy and did not become a monarch. Whereas Caesar was clearly on his way to becoming king. And so, over time, a new title was established as a REPLACEMENT for the king, the hereditary name/title caesar and augustus or imperator.
In my opinion, it is also a common mistake not to count Caesar among the emperors... when even the title of emperor and the empire itself came about through him. Why is Augustus more ceasar (emperor) than Ceasar, when even Augustus wasn't de iure emperor?
1. Caesar created an empire - but it last for a while because he was murdered. De facto he was already king, and he organized/led the state already as an empire - but he wasn't king de iure, he did not have enough time to do it officially (he wanted the people, the army or, better yet, the senate to declare and accept him as king).
2. After his death, it looked like the restoration of the republic but Octavian and company defeated the republicans and established a triumvirate that ruled until 33 BC (and the struggle for supremacy until the 27 BC). After that Octavian de facto established empire and became monarch/imperator.
@@niketesambrosiosdelagrece2266
That’s not a fact, that’s an assumption.
One that can easily be dismantled by the fact that Caesar didn’t need the title of King or Emperor and never really showed interest in it.
He wasn’t King de Facto either because he could not treat the position of Dictator as hereditary as written in the Roman Constitution that he respected except for the length of his term as Dictator.
Also, also, “Imperator” was a title that meant Master of the Battlefield given to generals by the troops. It was not something that meant king or ruler of a realm yet ( that interpretation will be born during the Empire ).
So, no. He was not an Emperor, and should not be counted as such. Otherwise you should count Lucius Cornelius Sulla as one as well, and there you will be essentially equating Dictator to Emperor, which are entirely different things.
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Also, Octavian didn’t became Emperor either. His actual title was Princeps ( root word for Prince ) while Augustus was a given name that meant “The Illustrious One”.
Over time both Augustus and Caesar would become actual monarchic titles.
Though he does count as a monarch because he treated the position as hereditary and the Republican Institutions were only a facade, something that was different in the case of Caesar as Senate was still the main body that made laws.
Hence why he’s considered the first Roman Emperor by historians, even though he never actually held the title with the meaning that it will get during the times of Emperor Caracalla.
@@niketesambrosiosdelagrece2266
As for why Augustus is superior to Caesar, that has to do with Diocletian as he designated the title of Caesar to be “Junior” to “Augustus” during the formation of the Tetrarchy, as the Caesars would be heirs to their respective Augusti.
Thank the humble Agrippa for much of Octavian’s success, that man was loyal asf.
@@cjclark1208
Thank you for the recognition my friend
“So we shall kill Caesar!” Says the Senate. Critics: How will this save the Republic? “The Republic…?”
Title really hurts my brain because "Caesar destroyed the Republic" is pretty much the epitome of an oversimplification.
What is your opinion about Gaius Julius Caesar?
He had a chance to restore order to the Republic, instead he refused to share power that opened the door for a 2nd civil war during the 2nd triumvirate which of course allowed Octavian aka later as Augustus to become the first Roman Emperor. Rome was so fed up with the conflict during the fall of the Republic that they were willing to live under an authoritarian system for a "Pax Romana" Very important moment in history, I cover it in my courses and videos I make as well.
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2:10
How did Ceasar leave the army? Didn't one have to enlist for 20 years or something? How did he just leave it when he felt like it?
2:06 I know one can get lost in minutiae when it comes to Caesar's life, but he did go all the way to Asia Minor after Sulla removed him from the proscription list, as you rightly say, at the tireless efforts of his mother. He won the corona civica at the battle Mytilene, on the island of Lesbos. Again, I can certainly understand if you chose to gloss over that as the major points are made.
Remember this young one, they are Caesar's legions, not Rome's or anyone else's. They are Caesar's legions
Caesar restored the Republic, didn't destroy it. The public news reader told me that yesterday.
He learned all the wrong lessons from Sulla's civil war
Fun fact: the Romans had long since believed that there was a magical island off the coast of Europa filled with beautiful Angels and if a man could make the crossing and bravely defeat one of the various types of monsters there they would gain the hand of one or more of these beautiful angels in marriage living eternally with them.
I'm not saying that's why Caesar went to Briton but I AM saying that's why and boy were they disappointed. England=land of angels
It was actually called Albion
Caesar did not really destroy the Republic. He merely ended the facade by crossing the Rubicon. The Republic had devolved into anything but a representative republic and instead was corrupt at every level and a facade or what it was intended to be. The power games that had been in full force since Sulla and his dictatorship were endemic and perverse. Caesar was the last best hope for anything resembling functional Republicanism to survive but his death brought on the Empire instead.
If he did it was sort of the equivalent of finding a half dead creature on the ground with one leg that is actively on fire and deciding you'd rather not watch it suffer anymore.
The Republic had both feet in the grave and was waiting for someone to get a shovel.
Caesar was no tyrant
Back then the Romans sometimes would elect one man to be a tyrant for a limited amount of time.
Mostly in hard and dangerous times.
Was it even still a republic when Caesar destroyed it? Or was it just a shell of its former self?
I should say shell, Creaser had too much power (the sanet was mere poppet show)
@@abgarsargsyan6448 I agree, by the time caeser came to play king, the Senate's already effectively allowed two emperors to rise prior. Good old greed and self interest broke the Senate long before Caesar did.
Caesar and the pirates reminds me of Kim Jong and the golf court.
Hmmm.... I see the corrupt and entitled Senate as the problem
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Wow
The Republic was already destroyed. Hence why Julius was able to achieve what he did. "Many a Marius," Sulla..
I know when a fellow roman fan has read Colleen McCullough's novels. ;)
How the heck did Caesar's wife have a dream about the assassination beforehand? Wild.
She had heard or been told of the prophecy by the haruspex that he would be killed
So she was having nightmares of it
caesar got his just desserts in the end with his assasination, with his ungracious treatment of his captors after release
Lol. They treated him well simply because he was important and because of his charisma. Had he been a pleb, they would have either killed him or treated him like a dog.
Not to mention, tell that to the citizens who literally inherited his fortune and his property in his testament and benefitted from the much needed reforms that the Gracchi Brothers ( Tribunes of the Plebs ) were assassinated ( by the senate ) for almost a century prior.
Sulla first tried to tie Caesar to the new order by a new marriage, however Caesar 18 years old adamantly refused to divorce Cornelia. Only after this defiance did Sulla take his wealth and put him on the proscription list.
I would argue Sulla destroyed the Republic. Ceaser and Crassus, along with Pompey, provided a sort of stability that simply kept society from breaking down. The Republic was not really functioning at the time. Ceaser saw this more clearly than most. He saw a way to get rich, seize power, and transform the Republic. If he would not have, I’m sure Crassus would have if he would have had the means to do so.
Will we finally see the light at the end of the tunnel of this series...?
It’s called history of the Roman Empire, we haven’t even started😂
@@gheddafiduck8239 i just meant will the videos be uploaded like always in about 4 months or will we finally see it more often
@@R2A97LB next video in 7 months I bet
@@gheddafiduck8239 he liked ur comment so its unfortunate true...
14:50 Changing the calendar was actually part of his job, a job he hadn't been doing. Legal reforms were also something that was expected of him.
"Dictator" was an official Roman office and while he obtained it through a civil war the power that came with it, the power to act unilaterally was legitimate and nothing that hadn't happened before. The Republic itself died with the takeover by Augustas (Octavius). Ceasers will made Octavius his heir but that didn't confer any state office.
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I have a question-
Did Tribune Aquilla aprove of these videos?
For more knowledge you can watch (Rome 2006 series)
Brutus a triumvir???
Octavian, Marc Antony, and Lepidus were the second triumvirate....
Octavian would roll over in his grave if he hadn't been cremated...
Is Caesar pronounced Seezer or Kaiser or Kaeser?
I wonder who could witness how Caesar behaved while captured by the pirates other than Caesar himself. So it could all be propaganda by the man himself, could it not?
The pirate story seems made up by Caeser.
Was "Caesar" in complicity with the pirates ?
the betrayal and murder of JC by the corrupt traitors was one of the most tragic events of human history; Rome needed a dictator at the time which extended the empire for centuries... just as the US is falling apart due to the republic eating itself. in any case, 20 minutes devoted to the civil war is barely sufficient to just touch on the main events of the time
Yo
The correct speed to watch this video at is 1.5x.
somebody even called caesar "Every woman's husband and every man's wife". or "Every woman's man and every man's woman"
Good man Ceaser
Hail Caesar
He served poisoned salad....
you say he was born 100 BC but when you say you was captured by pirates in 75BC he is 25? should that make him 35?
By the early 1st Century BCE, the Roman Republic had degenerated into the equivalent of the bloodier parts of The Godfather. We romanticize it far too much. It destroyed itself, Caesar was just collateral damage and August was the last man standing.
Caesar was too nice if he had done what Octavian did when he "won" none of this would have happened. When they say Republic what we were really talking about is extremely wealthy people running the government much like today.
Average female - Do you really think about the Roman Empire every day?
Average male - Don't you?
Knowledgia is a bit more Wokedia now:-D Cleopatra VII wasn't black, pals...
Glad that I’m not alone in that thought…I notice the same mistake
Caesar needed a fleet to catch pirates but he just jumped over the sea to get british islands?
@li53cz3k it's a well known fact that in those days, Brittan was connected by land to Gaul, and was later separated by George Washington.
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could the roman republic have lasted longer if it didnt convert to a empire?
Julius Caesar great general
HE WAS A CONSULE OF ROME!!!!!