REPUBLIC: no more kings because they had too much control and made things unstable, rome wanted for a republic with elected officials, this was the senate who were meant to discuss matters, two consuls led country to avoid collecting too much power, meant to be great representation of the people, actually was far from it, senate and consuls came from rich families who were out of touch with the common man
JULIUS CAESAR: young politician, climbed the ranks into the senate, became one of the consuls, gained more and more power, Caesar didn’t agree with the ideals of the republic because it was out of touch with the people, he served the people of Rome very well, he looked after them very we...