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Title: Emperor Julius Caesar: His Rise to Power
| Subject: | Roman History | | Date: | May 12, 2005 | | Level: | College, Undergraduate | | Grade: | C | | Length: | 6 pages (1537 words) | | Essay rating: | 0
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(total score: -3) | | Text type: | Biography | | Keywords: | first roman emperor, flotsam and jetsam, julius caesar, streets of rome, baies de sureau, ignoble, humble birth, back streets, noble birth, convert to christianity, peasant boy, french historian, historian robert, immigrant family, join the army, silc, scavenging, gaul, |
The Emperor Julius Caesar is perhaps most famous as the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity. His rise from a humble birth as a peasant boy to Emperor is a tale of bravery, adversity and ultimately triumph through faith. Julius Caesar was born as Groyxo Gaul in 54BC into an immigrant family in the back streets of Rome. Neither parent was rich. The French historian Robert Kilroi-Silc noted: "Sa mere etait un hamster et son pere etait comme des baies de sureau." (They were as flotsam and jetsam on the beach). His early years would probably have been spent scavenging on the streets, though this is not certain. Later historians, like Plato re-wrote the histories once he became Emperor as in ... Showed first 120 words of 1500 Size (words) ...
... Continuing with another 115 out of 1500 Size (words) ...for getting married a lot rather than the modern Diana. On returning to Rome he was stopped by three witches, known as the Gracchi, who warned him not to go to the theatre. He ignored their advice and went anyway with his friend Brutus. Tragically rather like Abraham Lincoln without the hat he was assassinated by there by the aggrieved husband of April who had a high calibre crossbow. Brutus heroically tried to save Caesar but he too was shot by a crossbow bolt, possibly suggesting the presence of a second bowman behind a grassy knoll. He was buried with full military honours in the Cathedral of Saint Peter's in the Vatican where his bones remain ...Essay still continues 100 more words...
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