On the morning Julius Caesar was murdered, Rome had no idea it was about to become an empire. This is the entire story — a wolf-raised kingdom, a republic that ate the Mediterranean and then ate itself, an emperor who bought peace with bread and circuses, an empire that split in two… and a fall that somehow took a thousand years.
Chapters:
0:00 The Morning Caesar Died
0:41 What This Video Will Prove
1:27 A Wolf Raises an Empire
3:04 The Republic Eats the Mediterranean
5:03 The Republic Eats Itself
7:32 The Peace That Conquered More
9:34 The Empire Splits in Two
10:58 The Fall That Took a Thousand Years
12:26 The Empire That Never Died
13:20 The Verdict
Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica; Smithsonian Magazine; World History Encyclopedia.
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