Identifier: historyofancient03good (find matches)
Title: A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Goodspeed, George Stephen, 1860-1905
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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it turned Gaul^^^^ into a bulwark of civilization to hold back advancingThere. German barbarism and thus furnished a means for ex-tending this civilization and establishing it in the regionsbeyond Gaul. Thereby all succeeding periods of west-ern history down to our own day have been stamped withRomes impress. (2) Caesar gained for himself men andmoney by which to take a commanding part in the furtherhistory of Rome.Caesar in 418. Caesar had sore need of these things, for Pompey, with the backed by the senate, was rapidly taking a more hostileSenate. attitude. Caesars term as proconsul closed in 49 B.C., andhe could not enter upon the consulship for which he wishedto stand till 48 B.C. Meanwhile, he would be a privatecitizen and could be brought to trial and ruined on chargeswhich he knew would be trumped up against him. More-over, he could canvass for election only by coming toRome in person; this he could not do without leaving hisprovince and giving up his proconsulate. He sought to
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Ccesar Crosses the Rubicon 349 have these conditions waived in his case, but the senaterefused. Finally, after endless negotiations, the senatecommanded him to resign his province, and Pompey wascalled upon to save the state from him as a public enemy.In response Caesar crossed the Rubicon, a river whichseparated his province from Italy, and marched rapidly onRome with an army (January 49 B.C.). Rome was in alarm, Heand Pompey, with the majority of the senate and a crowd ^^r^^^of nobles, fled to the coast and crossed over to Greece,where he gathered an army from the eastern provinces.Caesar found himself, without serious opposition, in pos- is Mastersession of Italy and Rome. After a hasty expedition to °^ ^^^^Spain, where he overthrew his enemies, he was appointeddictator, held the elections, in which he was made consul(48 B.C.), and proceeded to enter upon the struggle withPompey and the senatorial party. 419. The decisive battle was fought at Pharsalus in Pharsaixxs.Thessaly (48 B

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