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Episode XCVIII - Caesar's Gallic War

Emperors of Rome

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Is the Popularis a More Progressive Kind of Party?

People try to draw a modern parall s in that and go, i k, the popularis is clearly a more democratic, progressive kind of party. But it's necessarily anachronistic in that the popularis weren't really demoa. So it is not the same system. What about even more basically along progressive and conservative? I think caesar was a more progressive side. Is on the more progressive side, if you see it in those bindary terms, yes. And he's seen as in opposition to somebody like sulla. He chooses political power, not military glory.

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