Taking Notes on Julius Caesar

Hello,

Today in West Civ we just took notes, here they are:

Western Civ Notes

Proletarians - In ancient Rome, a propertyless but voting citizens 

Rome’s citizen-soilders were now “semi-professionals” who fought largely in the hope of bettering themselves through pay, loot, promotion, and above all grants of land or money to provide them with a living when they were discharged 

Most Roman generals just watched their men battle it out, Julius however would get into the battle, get bloody and do the work of his men along with him. This is why his men would do anything for him

In 60 B.C. he began to collaborate with Pompey, and Carassus, an officer promoted by Sulla who had conquered many eastern Mediterranean lands. Together the 2 allies formed a triumvirate, Crassus was an army general, with Pompey being the richest man alive at the time

With the help of his new friends, Caesar won an appointment as proconsul of a province that included the southern regions of Gaul, a territory stretching all of the way from northern Italy and the Mediterranean coast to the Rhine River and the Atlantic. 

The Gaulish tribes outside the Roman-ruled areas were called, were a branch of the Celtic peoples, the predominant barbarian ethnic group across most of western Europe and the British Isles. 

On the northern part of Italy there was a river that bordered them from places like Gaul. This river was called the Rubicon.