10: Rome's Growing Pains

 A city for sale, one which would perish at once if it found a buyer.
– Jugurtha, king of Numidia

The segments of this lecture are:

• 10a: Introduction
• 10b: Life During Wartime
• 10c: The First Triumvirate
• 10d: Fall of the Roman Republic
  
• 10e: Conclusions

Important terms, concepts, individuals, and events:

Social War, Popular Assembly, Mithradates, proscriptions, Pompey, Crassus, Caesar,  First Triumvirate, Marcus Junius Brutus, Marc Antony, perpetual dictatorship, Gaius Octavius

Questions for consideration: 

1. How did Sulla try to repair the Republic, and why did his repairs fail?
   
2. How did Caesar manipulate the concept of building a client army?
   
3. Do you believe Julius Caesar really intended to make himself king? Why?