Discuss two reasons a civil war started in Rome during the time of Julius Caesar?

By the time of the First Triumvirate, the republican form of government in Rome was already on its way to a monarchy. Before you get to the three men involved in the triumvirate, you need to know about some of the events and people that led to it:

During the era of the late Republic, Rome suffered through a reign of terror. Terror's tool was a new one, the proscription list, by which large numbers of important, wealthy people, and often senators, were killed; their property, confiscated. Sulla, the Roman dictator at the time, instigated this carnage:

Sulla now busied himself with slaughter, and murders without number or limit filled the city. Many, too, were killed to gratify private hatreds, although they had no relations with Sulla, but he gave his consent in order to gratify his adherents. At last one of the younger men, Caius Metellus, made bold to ask Sulla in the senate what end there was to be of these evils, and how far he would proceed before they might expect such doings to cease. "We do not ask thee," he said, "to free from punishment those whom thou hast determined to slay, but to free from suspense those whom thou hast determined to save."

Although when we think of dictators we think of men and women who want enduring power

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