Family
Julius Caesar's first name.
What is Gaius?
Julius Caesar's biggest rival in the Senate.
Who is Cato?
The political party Caesar was a part of.
What is the populares?
The Senate are scared of Julius Caesar because they fear he is this dangerous kind of ruler.
What is a tyrant?
This script, developed by the Sumerians in Mesopotamia, is one of the earliest known forms of writing, using wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets.
What is Cuneiform?
Julius Caesar's only child.
Who is Julia?
The political party that most of Caesar's enemies belonged to.
What is the Optimates?
The position that Julius Caesar needed the triumvirate to get him elected for.
What is the consul of Rome?
Crassus died for this ambition.
What is conquering Parthia?
King Arthur is likely based on a man who is half-Briton half this.
What is Roman?
Though roughly the same age, this man was Julius Caesar's son in law and co-conspirator.
Who is Pompey the Great/General Pompey?
This man was once Caesar's ally before turning against him.
Who is Pompey the Great?
The triumvirate was composed of these three men.
Julius Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey the Great.
The reason that Julius Caesar wanted to stay governor and general of Gaul and to be consul again.
What is immunity to prosectution/imperium?
The Sack of Lindnesfarne is the start of this.
What is the Viking Age?
The reason Julius Caesar divorced his wife.
What is she must be above suspicion of cheating/infidelity?
Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey had thugs beat up which member of the senate?
Who is Cato?
This is the first major political office that Julius Caesar held.
What is the pontifex maximus/high priest of Rome?
Crassus aligns with Julius Caesar for this economic policy.
What are lucrative tax breaks?
The two languages most similar to English.
What are Frisian and Scots?
The Julians claimed to be descended from these two legendary figures (hint: a hero and his godly parent).
Who are Aeneas and Venus?
Cato did this to stall the vote to give Pompey's veterans land and it is still used today in US and UK politics.
What is filibuster?
This is the type of potentially dangerous leader/politician that Julius Caesar is often called.
What is a demagogue?
The name of the river that Julius Caesar crossed to invade Rome.
The process or product of an invading/outside language being imposed on another language and changing the existing language or creating a whole new language.
What is a creole/creolization?