The First 50 Pages of Augustus Caesar

 

 

                          The main character of my ORB is Augustus Caesar.    The setting of this book takes place in a variety of places, such as Italy,  Greece, Egypt, Northwestern Africa, Spain and Gaul (Modern-day France.)  The time of this book spans from about 50 BC to 14 AD.  Most of the people in this book are either really rich or really poor.  The main way in which people in my book would become rich is by utilizing an army and conquering another neighboring nation.  Once they have established successful military conquest, they will run as a candidate to become a senate. By the time of Augustus, the senate is where the majority of the power over the Roman territories lied.

 

                          One reason why Augustus Caesar became rich was because he was born with that power.  To elaborate, he was born into a family that was friends with, the already politically invincible, Julias Caesar.  Another was that as Julias Caesar conquered more and more terrritories, Julias had shared that wealth with Augustus, especially from the selling of slaves.  Once Julias Caesar was brutally murdered from a band of senators, Augustus had gone on a rampage of playing "search and destroy" against those who were responsible for the slaughter.