Lesson 16

Question 1

Roman orator, scholar, statesman, soldier*

Answer 1

Julius Caesar

Question 2

March 15th; day Caesar was assassinated

Answer 2

Ides of March

Question 3

Caesar’s protege and friends; one of the assassins*

Answer 3

Brutus

Question 4

“In that young man there is many a Marius.”*

Answer 4

Sulla

Question 5

“Poor as this village is, I would rather be first here than second in Rome!”*

Answer 5

Julius Caesar

Question 6

What was the significance of “crossing the Rubicon”?

Answer 6

Caesar was forbidden by the Senate to take his army across the Rubicon, a river marking the border of Italy. By crossing it, Caesar set in motion the Civil War. Metaphorically, “crossing the Rubicon” means to take an action from which there is no turning back.

Question 7

List some of the favorable contributions Julius Caesar made to Rome.

Answer 7

He began to make Rome a commercial city. He erected buildings, built aqueducts, established a great library, and created a new calendar.

Question 8

How, when, and why, was Julius Caesar assassinated?

Answer 8

Caesar was assassinated at a meeting of the Senate in Pompey’s theater in 44 B.C. He was attacked by a broup of conpsirators with ties to the nobility. Their states reason was that Caesar sought one-man rule, was becoming a tyrant, adn might have had aspirations to kingship.