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Part Two: How The Roman Republic Became a Police State

Behind the Bastards

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Caesar Divorced His Wife

Cesar comes to power later in life. He doesn't have a lot of money, ah, so he has to work with crassus and stuff. But when he gets his military command of gaul number one, it's kind of because he's so old and hasn't really distinguished himself politically. Caesar almost basically did kind of have the equivalent of the reality show. While he is conquering, again, all e fucking europe, likee, like hese's ind his minner. His forces are regularly outnumbered four and five to one, some accounts, even more than thate. And then he conquers allof western europer li it is ali. Everybody shows up

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