Julius Caesar Interactive Biography - Ancient Rome and the Roman Republic - Grades 6-12
By Micah's Learning Resources
This Julius Caesar interactive biography turns the fall of the Roman Republic into a self-guided activity that opens in any browser with no prep, no logins, and no installs. Students follow Caesar (100-44 BCE) from a patrician family in a crowded Roman neighborhood through the conquest of Gaul, across the Rubicon into civil war, and to the floor of the Senate on the Ides of March. What Students Explore - Biography: Five illustrated eras covering the patrician boyhood and the years marked by Sulla, the climb through the offices of the Republic and the First Triumvirate, the Gallic Wars, the civil war and the dictatorship, and the assassination that opened the way to empire - Timeline: A two-track timeline of 33 events setting Caesar's life beside the Social War, Spartacus, the Catiline conspiracy, the disaster at Carrhae, and the rise of Augustus after Actium - Map: Thirteen places that shaped the story, from the Subura in Rome and the Sabine hills through Mytilene, Hispania, Alesia, Britannia and the Rubicon, to Pharsalus, Alexandria and the Curia of Pompey - Connections: A 22-node web of the people, works, events and institutions in the story, including his mother Aurelia Cotta, Sulla, Pompey and Crassus of the First Triumvirate, Cicero, Cato the Younger, Vercingetorix, Cleopatra VII, Mark Antony, Brutus and Cassius, and the young Octavian - Sources and Quiz: Four primary-source close-readings, plus a fifteen-question quiz: thirteen multiple choice and true or false question
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