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Naomi
So, the Roman Empire was a Republic, which utilizes many democratic ideals to allow a voice to all. Caesar had changed the number of the Senate from 300 to 900, making them less productive, in an attempt to gain more power. Brutus and the "liberators" (the Senators whose jobs were at stake) decided to take things into their own hands in order to save the Republic. However, they misjudged how much the people loved Caesar (he was giving jobs and land to the plebeians middle class), so the liberators were exiled.
Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)
Well, that's the big question. History is written by the winners, remember. So we are told that JC was ambitious beyond belief and wanted to be a dictator and all that. But he never made it beyond public acclaim and the beginning of his political (not military) career, so we don't know. His enemies saw him as a threat to their own careers, so they conspired to snuff him. The Roman Empire was already in decadence at the time, anyway--it's not like Big Jules "invented" corruption or anything; it was already well in place.
Saskia
The Romanian Empire was a Republic - Caesar made it be a Monarchy. Killing Caesar is saving the republican Empire in which the politicians so strongly believed in.
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