What was the importance of Julius Caesar leading the Roman army across the Rubicon River?
The Senate recalled Caesar to Rome, but ordered him to leave his legions behind in Gaul. Caesar knew that if he returned unsupported, Pompey s men would murder him. When Caesar and his army crossed the Rubicon Gaul s southern border civil war between Caesar and Pompey began. 7. Explain what is meant by the statement that the Roman legions were no longer an army of conquest but an army of occupation. Revolts by peoples who were conquered by Rome, such as the Jews in Judea, had to be suppressed by the army. The Roman army was no longer gaining new territory it was forcing the people it had conquered into allegiance. 8. What factors led to the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire? Barbarians began to migrate into the Roman Empire, causing the edges of the empire to crumble. Emperors were regularly assassinated, so no leader was ever in power for very long. Armies proclaimed their own generals as emperor and tried to seize Rome for themselves. Roman armies were locked in civil wars and
