Julius Caesar

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governor of a nearby island and hunted down his captors. After keeping his promises, he crucified the whole band of the pirates, leaving them to die of thirst hanging naked on crosses in the hot Mediterranean sun.
's most famous accomplishments might as well be the conquest of Gaul and the invasion of Britain. The civil wars that had plagued the Roman Republic kept going during the reign of , and he was a major player in the struggle for power and leadership. He defeated his major rival Cnaeus Pompey in 48 B.C. at the Battle of Pharsalus. Because he continued to generate so much power in his own hands that really belonged to the Senate, Caesar wasn't looked on as a very good person by the senators of Rome. Most of them thought that he would mess up and put an end to the Republic and that he was a threat to all the Roman traditions that they've followed for years and years. A band of conspirators planned out and succeeded in assassinating him in 44 B.C., but the memory of him and ...

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