Julius Caesar If anyone had hoped that the assassination of Julius Caesar would bring about the return of Republican rule, they must surely have been disappointed, for the political turbulence simply continued. Caesar’s assassins and his old commanders battled for control, while orators like Cicero labored to save the old Republic. In the and, Julius Caesar’s great nephew and adopted son Octavian known to history as Augustus Caesar outmaneuvered and outfought everyone. The …showed first 75 words of 522 total…

…showed last 75 words of 522 total…in what is now Germany. He commanded in the name of his uncle, Julius Caesar, and on the basis of his own military victories, claiming that he brought peace and order after a century of civil wars. He rebuilt temples to the Olympian gods, the “divine” Julius Caesar, and to “Rome and Augustus.” He built roads, bridges, and aqueducts, established a sound currency, nurtured honest government, and maintained peace, which lasted nearly two hundred years.