The series of political offices expected of a nobleman
Cursus Honorum
The mythological ancestor of the gens Iulia
Venus (Aeneas, Ascanius/Iulus)
Gaul's modern-day counterpart
Caesar's declaration of war against the Senate
Crossing the Rubicon
The reason Caesar was killed
He was becoming a king in all but name
Two orders of Roman upper class or nobility
Patricians and Equites
Caesar's lover, whose side he took in the Egyptian civil war
Cleopatra VII
Enemies separated from Roman Gaul by the Rhine river
Germani
Caesar's Second-in-command, whom he left in control of Rome
Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony)
The ringleaders of the assassins
Cassius and Brutus
The arrangement by which Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus worked together
First Triumvirate
Range of number of conspirators
Number of times Caesar was stabbed
60-70
23
Region Caesar invaded twice but ultimately failed to take
Britannia
The two factions that Pompey and Caesar led
Populares and Optimates
Caesar's adopted son, who inherited much of his power and influence
Octavian (Augustus)
System of reciprocal obligation that Rome was built on
Clientela (Patronage, Patron-Client)
Roman politico-religious rite celebrating a victorious general
Triumph
Caesar's greatest advantage against the Gauls
Their disunity
What Ptolemy gave Caesar when he arrived in Egypt
The head of Pompey
Where Caesar was killed
The Senate (Theater of Pompey)
The arrangement by which Octavian, Antony, and Lepidus ruled
Second Triumvirate
Caesar's mercy for the pirates
Slitting their throats before crucifying them
Battle in which Caesar defeated Vercingetorix (bonus for the engineering tactic he used)
Battle of Alesia
Battle in Greece where Caesar defeated the Senate
Battle of Pharsalus
Given to Caesar posthumously by the Senate
Godhood (apotheosis, deification)