the first century bc was a time of great men in rome great but destructive men such as sulla marius cicero cato crassus pompey and caesar each individually had the skills and abilities to bring glory and prosperity to rome but they were often in conflict and the conflict between caesar and pompey would lead to the destruction of the republic which had lasted for almost NUMBER_TOKEN years this is the story of the great roman civil war these long videos are very difficult to make so consider liking sharing and commenting although the romans spoke the same language the misunderstandings among them led to many bad things the sponsor of this video babel is here to help you avoid conversational problems as it's a great platform to learn a new language a number of kings and generals team members used babel in the last year to learn a new language for travel or to impress their loved ones or to be able to research sources in various languages as babel offers spanish french russian turkish italian portuguese and other languages spoken by more than NUMBER_TOKEN billion people worldwide babel has more than NUMBER_TOKEN million subscribers and for a good reason it teaches using real-world practical conversations about travel business and relationships in short NUMBER_TOKEN-minute interactive lessons making it a perfect service for people with time constraints lessons are designed by real language teachers and no machine learning algorithms or ai babble's award-winning technique is proven to get you speaking a new language in just NUMBER_TOKEN weeks and there are multiple ways to learn including podcasts games videos and live classes with professional teachers babel is so sure that it works that it offers a NUMBER_TOKEN-day money-back guarantee so what are you waiting for join us and millions of others and learn a new language with babel this sponsorship supports our channel and you can do the same by subscribing to babel via the link in the description to get NUMBER_TOKEN off the subscription in order to fully understand how the great roman civil war also known as caesar's civil war began we need to grasp the cultural and historical background since the mid-second century bc the roman republic had started fracturing with the assassination of the grenke brothers who had campaigned for land redistribution their deaths underlined the growing social divide between the upper and lower classes in rome and the instability carried on into the following decades with revolts in sicily the social war with italian allies and ultimately the civil wars of sulla and marius at the start of the NUMBER_TOKENst century bc those two showed the political rift between those who believed power came from the plebs the popularis like marius and those who believed power came from the senate the optimists such as salah moreover their war had exposed flaws in the roman republican system proving that politics could be easily subverted through military power though after his victory salahad as dictator introduced legislation to try and stop anyone following in his footsteps the president had already been set a general could march on rome take it by force and impose his own will on the republic if enough soldiers were personally loyal to an individual general the senators could do little to curtail that man's power furthermore the republic's constitution with its numerous checks and balances was proving to be one of the crucial factors in its destruction powerful politicians were able to paralyze
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