Julius Caesar

• Senate Murdered Caesar 
• most of them came in with hidden knives and stabbed him
• Not all of the senate took part
• Best friend Brutus even murdered him 
• Shakespeare 
• Wrote story called "Julius Caesar"
• "Et tu, Brute?"
• Even You?
• Supposed to be his last words 
• No one know what his last word actually was 
• Octavian-AKA Caesar Augustus 
• Caesar's grand-nephew 
• Became known as Caesar Augustus 
• August: means to be revered/honor
• Nearly a god in the people's eyes
• Became leader at age 18 
• Begins the Pax Romana - a period of peace and prosperity 
• Built roads, aqueducts (brought water to the cities)
• Set up civil service to take care of roads, the grain supply, even a postal service 
• Dies at age 76 in A.D.14, and passes power to...
• Tiberius 
• Jesus
• Was a Roman Citizen and a Jew
• At 30, he began his ministry (A.D. 31-33), preaching to the poor (lots of them) in the empire, and reaching out to outsiders
• Statements like "My kingdom is not of this world" made the Romans (and the Jews) nervous, and they began to plan his execution 
• The governor of the Roman province of Judaea, Pontius Pilate (prompted by Jewish high priests), sentences Jesus to death by crucifixion 
• Wikipedia says Jesus is a "historical figure" 
• Paul is instrumental in telling the world about Jesus' life, death, resurrection, and message 
• He travels far and wide 
• He writes letters to many of those he spoke to- these epistles are part of the New Testament 
• If not for the efforts of Paul, it is likely that Jesus remains an obscure preacher, instead of the central figure of the world's largest religion
• Muhammad, Newton, Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, and St. Paul of Tarsus