Daily Quiz for March 19, 2012

The Rubicon. Caesar crossed the Rubicon in 49 BC to march on Rome – he was now irrevocably at war with the Republic and Pompey the Great. The Senate and Pompey fled to Greece, where they consolidated Pompey’s army and awaited Caesar’s attack. He eventually beat the Republic at the battles of Pharsalus, Dyrrhachium, and Munda. After the civil war Caesar became Perpetual Dictator of Rome, leading to the Roman Empire.