Formed in 60 B.C.E., the First Triumvirate worked to consolidate power in Rome between its three members. Crassus and Pompey couldn’t stand each other, but had to work together because it was the only way they could ultimately get what they wanted. The First Triumvirate succeeded in: Getting Caesar elected to consul.

During the first 300 years of the Republic, dictators were often called on when Rome faced an invasion or some internal danger. He bypassed the Senate, which was filled with his enemies, and convinced the citizens’ assembly to make him a permanent dictator. Sulla then banished or killed hundreds of his opponents.

The Senate chose a new dictator to lead. A general took power from the triumvirate. The triumvirate took control of the government.

78 BC

Most commonly accepted is the view that Sulla’s resignation was an act of honesty by a man who had pledged to step down as soon as his reforms had been carried out. Henceforth a private citizen, he continued to write his memoirs. Active to his very last days, Sulla was struck down by a fever in the spring of 78.

The First Triumvirate saw its end with the deaths of both Crassus and Julia. What truly broke the Triumvirate apart was when Crassus was killed on the field of battle against the Parthian general Surenas in the year 53 BCE. Crassus found his forces divided and the Parthian army massacring all of his forces.

The Roman army of the mid-Republic was also known as the “manipular army”, or the “Polybian army”, after the Greek historian Polybius, who provides the most detailed extant description of this phase. The Roman army started to have a full-time strength of 150,000 at all times and 3/4 of the rest were levied.

Gaul, French Gaule, Latin Gallia, the region inhabited by the ancient Gauls, comprising modern-day France and parts of Belgium, western Germany, and northern Italy.

Originally applied to the whole Frankish Empire, the name France comes from the Latin Francia, or “realm of the Franks”. Modern France is still named today Francia in Italian and Spanish, while Frankreich in German, Frankrijk in Dutch and Frankrike in Swedish all mean “Land/realm of the Franks”.

The Romans called the country Gaul France was originally called Gaul by the Romans who gave the name to the entire area where the Celtics lived. This actually covered a huge land area including France but also Belgium, Luxembourg and parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany.

Gaulish or Gallic is the name given to the Celtic language that was spoken in Gaul before the Latin of the late Roman Empire became dominant in Roman Gaul. According to Julius Caesar in his Commentaries on the Gallic War, it was one of three languages in Gaul, the others being Aquitanian and Belgic.

Conditions of final demise. Despite considerable Romanization of the local material culture, the Gaulish language is held to have survived and coexisted with spoken Latin during the centuries of Roman rule of Gaul.

The Britons both respected and feared them. It was believed that a Druid could see into the future – they also acted as teachers and judges. In their own way, the Druids were very religious. It was this particular issue that angered the Romans as the Druids sacrificed people to their gods.

Druid, member of the learned class among the ancient Celts. Their name may have come from a Celtic word meaning “knower of the oak tree.” Very little is known for certain about the Druids, who kept no records of their own.

There may well have been women druids; personally, I think there almost certainly were bandrui though they were not in the majority. Scathach is explicitly called both a flaith, “prophetess,” and a druid and she prophesies about Cú Chulainn. …

Hello, the answer is no, Druids are not evil. Druids are practitioners of indigenous Celtic religion and are thought to be the priest class of Druidism, which is a nature-based indigenous Irish/Celtic religious system which seeks to honor plants and trees.

Many forms of modern Druidry are modern Pagan religions, although most of the earliest modern Druids identified as Christians. Originating in Britain during the 18th century, Druidry was originally a cultural movement, and only gained religious or spiritual connotations later in the 19th century.

Suetonius and his soldiers then roamed across the island, destroying the druids sacred oak groves, smashing their altars and temples and killing anyone they could find. The Roman general next proceeded to establish a garrison on Anglesey, a military fortress that kept the native tribes in total subjugation.

Druid characters tend to have abilities that involve healing, weather or plant related spells, summoning animal allies, and shapeshifting.

They believed in a life after death, for they buried food, weapons, and ornaments with the dead. The druids, the early Celtic priesthood, taught the doctrine of transmigration of souls and discussed the nature and power of the gods.