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Gaius Julius Caesar was born on July 12, 100 BC in Rome. He was born into a patrician family who traced their ancestry to Julus, son of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who according to myth was the son of Venus. According to legends, Caesar was born by Caesarian section, hence the name (although, it is quite unlikely because at the time it was only performed on dead women and his mother lived long after Caesar's birth).

Caesar came to be a powerful Roman military and political leader. He plaid important parts in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. Caesar's conquest of Gaul extended the Roman world to the Atlantic Ocean, with the first invasion starting in 55 BC of Britannia.

Julius Caesar, widely considered one of the greatest military minds of all time, was a briliant politician and one of the ancient world's most powerful leaders. In 42 BC, two years before his death, the Roman Senate proclaimed him as a Roman god.

After a civil war, Caesar became the undisputed leader of the Roman world and began reforming the Roman society and government. However, soon his friend Marcus Brutus conspired with others to assassinate Caesar after Julius showing signs of wanting to make himself king, instead of just dictator. The conspiracy followed through with the dramatic assassination on the Ides of March in 44 BC which sparked a new civil war between Caesarians, which included Octavian, Mark Antony and Lepidus, while the Republicans included Brutus, Cassius and Cicero and the sons of men who were killed by Caesar in the civil war.

The war ended with a Caesarian victory at the Battle of Philippi and the establishment of the Second Triumvirate of control of Rome by Octavian, Antony and Lepidus. However, civil war began once again when tensions between Octavian and Antony occurred. Octavian defeated Antony at the Battle of Actium and left Octavium as the leader of the Roman world. The civil wars sparked the period of tranformation between Roman Republic and Roman Empire and soon ended when Octavian (later known as Caesar Augustus) was installed as the first emperor.

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