The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler. Welcome to the History of the World Podcast magazine. Oh, yeah. Welcome, welcome to the History of the World Podcast magazine. And this week we go back to what we were doing before,

the A to Z of history. Now last time we did a couple of episodes on the letter B so that can only mean one thing.

This episode is about historical characters and events that begin with the letter C. So let's get started. Now the

first letter C we've got is for Caesar. Gaius Julius Kaiser. Julius Caesar.

He was a celebrated Roman general and a statesman.

His remarkable life left an indelible mark on history. Caesar's legacy shaped the transition from the

Roman Republic to the Roman Empire leaving an enduring impact on Western

civilization. Let's go back to Caesar's campaigns in Gaul, the Gallic Wars.

With Caesar's Consulship now over, he would need to turn his attention to repaying his debts. Thanks to Pompey and Piso, Caesar would now be granted the ability to take

military legions into Trans Alpine Gaul, a place where he had been granted a five-year

governorship since the mysterious death of the previous governor, Quintus Caychilius

Metellus Celler.

Caesar would look towards this as an opportunity to enhance his legacy and acquire the wealth,

to repay his debts and realize his desire to be wealthy.

Caesar's ambitions in Gaul were also generally popular due to the Gaelic threat

being feared by the Romans.

Cicero himself would cite the Gaelic raiders that had terrorised the northern fringes of the

Roman Republic reaches as a similar level of threat to that

which had been posed by King Mithrod. That is the sixth of Pontus in previous

decades. Caesar's initial campaigns in Trans Alpine Gaul in 58 B.C. were very encouraging.

Firstly, he would defeat the Elveti tribe who occupied the

Swiss Plateau before marching north to the lands of Alsace and those Germanic tribes who occupied them.

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