Caeser and Rome
Rome and western history are inevitably linked. Rome was the most influential civilization in human history and at one stage a 1/4 of the worlds population lived under its influence. Rome was a true empire with the focus on the glory and power of Rome at all costs. It was cruel, unjust, dangerous and unstable. But amongst all that we found sheer brilliance. Rome had some truly amazing emperors, and some names that will forever live in infamy such as Nero and Caligula. I believe that what we believe about the former is more bad press than any truth. Caesar the name of the first true emperor of Rome was by all accounts simply brilliant. His victory at Allisa, is still today considered one of the greatest in recorded history, 40,000 Romans defeated 250,000 Gauls. He once and for all stamped his authority and therefore Rome's on Gaul. But to leave it there does not give a true volume of the man. He realized and quite rightly that for Rom...