HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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crossing the Alps with his troops and elephants
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driving Pompey out of Italy
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creating the Julian calendar
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taking his troops across the Rubicon River into Rome
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Detailed explanation-1: -On January 10, 49 B.C.E., General Julius Caesar entered Roman territory by crossing the Rubicon, a stream in what is now Northern Italy. In crossing the Rubicon, Caesar began a civil war that signaled the end of the Roman Republic.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a governor, it was illegal for him to bring an army with him to Rome, and doing so would be considered an act of war. Caesar ultimately decided to cross the Rubicon River, the landmark that divided Gaul from Rome, and bring his army with him.
Detailed explanation-3: -When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 B.C., passing “a point of no return” as understood in English idiom, he uttered (according to some authors) the phrase alea iacta est ("the die is cast") before crossing the river.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 49 B.C. on the banks of the Rubicon, Julius Caesar faced a critical choice. To remain in Gaul meant forfeiting his power to his enemies in Rome. Crossing the river into Italy would be a declaration of war. Caesar chose war.
Detailed explanation-5: -When his rivals in Rome demanded he return as a private citizen, he used these riches to support his army and marched them across the Rubicon River, crossing from Gaul into Italy. This sparked a civil war between Caesar’s forces and forces of his chief rival for power, Pompey, from which Caesar emerged victorious.
Detailed explanation-6: -Caesar’s civil war (49–45 BC) was one of the last politico-military conflicts of the Roman Republic before its reorganization into the Roman Empire.