Caesar defeats Pompey’s forces in Spain ... B.C., Caesar’s boyhood was marked by the Social Wars, a series of struggles in which Rome’s Italian allies fought for the right to Roman ...

He returned to Rome in 60 BC and, the following year, was elected consul, the highest office in the republic. Now holding real power, Caesar allied himself with two key people, Pompey and Crassus.

Caesar had become governor of Gaul (modern France) due to the support of the elderly general Pompey and ... sharpened the ...

Caesar, Pompey and Crassus ... he led his veteran troops in a series of successful campaigns against the Gallic tribes – the Gallic Wars – significantly expanding Rome’s frontiers to the ...