What did julius ceaser have to the fall of the roman republic?
Gaius Julius Caesar was the final nail in the coffin of the Roman Republic but not the only cause. During the Punic Wars, the plebeian small-holders who had to serve in the roman legions found themselves unable to farm their lands, unable to pay their taxes. Ultimately they lost their lands and ended up as the Mob, an impoverished group in Rome, reliant upon handouts. Meanwhile, the rich consolidated their lands into huge, slave-worked estates that made them even richer. This caused profound social, economic and political problems for the Roman state. The upper, political class divided between the Optimates – rich, conservative landowners who wanted nothing to change – and the Populares – senators who saw a need for land reform to ease the troubles of the poor. The struggles of the Optimates and the Populares defined the last century of the Republic. Assassinations, the civil wars between Sulla and Marius and finally, the rise of the First Triumvirate of Caesar, Crassus and Pompey the
