Greetings Supreme Commander, I will move forward with most haste to recollect all the information before they are utterly and entirely, DELETED! At the behest of your request, I have located five IMPORTANT events that shaped the Roman Empire. The first event was the assassination of Julius Caesar; the second event was the reign of Augustus; the third event was the reign of Caligula; the fourth event was the death of Nero; FINALLY, the fifth event is the account of the destruction of Pompeii by Pliny the Younger.
The first event; the death of Julius Caesar, is paramount to the history of Rome as a whole. Without his death, I am positive that nothing would be as it is in Roman history. The death of Julius Caesar showed the “combined hatred of a monarchy” . Caesar was gaining too much power, mostly as a result of his military campaigns and the relationships he was building with his soldiers. The military generals loved Caesar, and
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Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii. The significance of Pompeii cannot be overstated. The town provides a living example of how Romans lived. It showed that both the rich and the poor lived in the same areas; wealth was not a dividing factor. Additionally, it showed how slaves could be freed and ended up becoming extremely wealthy, as seen through the skeletal remains of the “green man” in the documentary “Pompeii, Back from the Dead” . Also, Pliny’s letters offer historians a detailed account of what happened that day and it gives proof through documentation that the city of Pompeii was real, and that it wasn’t made up. The account gives details of how massive the eruption was; Pliny himself was not on Pompeii at the time of the eruption, however, he could clearly see Vesuvius erupt. Overall, the story of Pompeii adds more details surrounding how Roman citizens lived, how lavish the games were, and how religious the citizens