Pompey the Great

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Pompey the Great

• By Zina A.
• Olympians

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Pompeys Personal Life

• Was born in 106 BCE
• He was born to a wealthy family
• His birth name was Gnaeus Pompius Magnus, after
  his father, Gnaeus Pompius Strabo
• He was married 4 times, including Julia Caesa.r

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Pompeys Career

• He started as a young military general
  controlling 3 legions in 84 BCE
• He was known first as the teenage butcher
• He later became a consul with Crassus in 70 BCE
• Along with Caesar and Crassus, he started the
  first Triumvirate in 60 BCE.

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Pompeys Most Famous Military Moments

• Clearing the pirates off of the Mediterranean in
  67-66 BCE
• Conquering Asia Minor and Syria, coming back in
  61 BCE
• Helping Sulla to fight Marius in Italy in 89 BCE
• Taking control of the Mithradates rule in 65-62
  BCE
• Fightingt Spain 76-71 BCE

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Fighting for Sulla

• Pompey started his real military career as a
  helper for Sulla in 83 BCE
• He fought against Marius, in Italy.
• The teenage butcher, went off to Spain right
  after Sullas death.

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Being a Consul

• Pompey became a consul in 70 BCE.
• Crassus was the other consul.
• Pompey and Crassus werent legally qualified for
  their positions.
• The Senate disapproved their intensions.

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The Triumvirate

• Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus became the first
  Triumvirate in 60 BCE
• Their intensions were to control Rome with 3
  people.
• While Caesar and Crassus were out fighting,
  Pompey stayed and helped on the home front.

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The Hard Task

• Pompey was told to sweep the pirates off of the
  Mediterranean Sea
• He divided the Mediterranean into 3 sections,
  having armies posted at each one of them.
• Left with 20,000 captives
• Sold them as slaves

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Pompeys End

• After Julia died in 54 BCE, and Crassus in 53
  BCE, Pompey and Julius fought for dictatorship
• In 48 BCE Pompey and his army went to Battle of
  Pharsalus.
• The younger one, Caesar, won.
• Pompey was killed in Egypt on September 28, 48
  BCE.

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Pompey Most Political

• Pompey wanted power and honor so much that he
  became a military man as a teenager.
• He married Julia Caesar to be closer to Caesar,
  though did love her.
• He later told the Senate that Caesar was bad, to
  have the power.
• All his life Pompey strived to be best by being
  in a Triumvirate, and a military general, and a
  great person.