Saturday, August 13, 2011
How did the ination of Julius Caesar affect the country?
Actually his ination split the country down the middle between Marc Antony and Octavian. Lepidus was the third and least important member of the triumvirate. Each man had a list of people to be murdered to cleanse the country of traitors. Antony and Octavian were working together to defeat Cius and Brutus, but eventually they would turn against each other; at the battle of Actium Octavian's forces defeated Antony and he became emperor of Rome, although he was wily enough to have the Senate grant him the honor of: I think he was called First Among Citizens. Eventually he became Augustus and apparently ruled the now empire justly but set forth in motion its eventual corruption and fall the following successors being much inferior to him.
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