Name: Mawa Khan
History
Detective
Event that you are studying:
Julius Caesar Death/Assassination
Q) What are three questions you have about this event?
1. Why was he killed?
2. What was the aftermath of his assassination?
3. Why were there so many people involved in this assassination?
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Research:
Time and Place: Important Information:
March 15, 44 B.C
As Caesar took his seat, Lucius Tillius
Largo di Torre Cimber presented him with a petition to recall his
Argentina exiled brother. Caesar waved him away, but Cimber
grabbed Caesar's shoulders and pulled down
Rome, Italy Caesar's toga. Caesar then cried to Cimber, "Why,
this is violence at the same time.” Casca produced
his dagger and made a glancing thrust at the
dictator's neck. Caesar turned around quickly and
caught Casca by the arm.
Who was involved?
According to Plutarch, he said in Latin, "Casca,
60 conspirators you villain, what are you doing?"] Casca, frightened,
shouted Within moments, the entire group, including
40 senators Brutus, were stabbing the dictator. Caesar attempted
to get away, but, blinded by blood in his eyes, he
Led by Marcus tripped and fell; the men continued stabbing him as
Brutus and he lay defenseless on the lower steps of the portico.
Decimus Brutus Caesar was stabbed 23 times. Suetonius relates
that a physician who performed an autopsy on
Caesar established that only one wound (the second
one to his chest that pierced his aorta) had been
fatal.
Caesar was killed at the base of the Curia in
the Theater of Pompey
Answers to your three questions:
1. After my research I have come to know that Ongoing tensions
between Caesar and the Senate, amid fears that he also planned to
claim the title of king, overthrow the Senate and rule as a tyrant, were
the principal motives for his assassination.
2. The consequences were that Much of the Roman public hated the
senators for the assassination, and a series of civil wars ensued. After
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his death, his grandnephew and adoptive son Octavian emerged as the
Roman leader which marked the end of the Roman Republic and
beginning of the Roman Empire. In just a few months, Caesar had
disrespected the Senate, removed People's Tribunes, and toyed with
monarchy.
3. While it took only one man to murder another, Brutus believed that
for the assassination of Caesar to be considered a legitimate removal
of a tyrant, done for the sake of their country, it must include many
Rome's leading men
Why was this an important event in history?
Julius Caesar was assassinated by about 40 Roman senators on the "ides of
March" (March 15) 44 BCE. Caesar's death resulted in a long series of civil
wars that ended in the death of the Roman Republic and the birth of the
Roman Empire.
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