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Gaius Julius Caesar Biography

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Name: Gaius Julius Caesar
Birth Date: July 12, 100 B.C.
Death Date: March 15, 44 B.C.
Place of Birth: Rome
Place of Death: Rome
Nationality: Roman
Gender: Male
Occupations: general, politician

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Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) was a Roman general and politician who overthrew the Roman Republic and established the rule of the emperors.

At the time of Julius Caesar's birth the political, social, economic, and moral problems created by the acquisition of a Mediterranean empire in the 3d and 2d centuries B.C. began to challenge the Roman Republic. The senatorial oligarchy that ruled Rome was proving inadequate to deal with these new challenges. It could not control the armies and the generals and was unwilling to listen to the pleas of the Italian allies for equal citizenship and of the provinces for justice. The system also had no real answers for the growth of an urban proletariat and the mass importation of slaves. Caesar saw these inadequacies of the Senate and used the problems and dilemmas of the period to create his own supreme political and military power.

Caesar was born on July 12, 100 B.C.

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