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Which celebrity in history who has been idolized is actually a terrible person?
Many people like to worship Julius Caesar.

Admittedly, there are many good reasons for this blind worship. There is no doubt that Caesar is an outstanding politician and writer and the greatest general in Roman history. He is absolutely a genius. He pursues everything and then owns everything just because he is far ahead of his contemporaries.

However, I think our praise for his behavior usually does not fully reflect Caesar's behavior.

First of all, don't get me wrong: Caesar's conquest of Gaul was an unprecedented atrocity. Caesar manipulated the Roman political system, ensured that he had a huge army, and then pursued an independent plan to conquer vanity. Then, he began to systematically eliminate the self-sufficiency of proud and independent peoples who lived in peace, traded and even allied with Rome.

It is generally estimated that Caesar Gaul War killed 1 10,000 people and was enslaved 1 10,000 people. These numbers are crazy, especially for the pre-modern world. Some people think that other Roman conquerors, such as Pompeii and Scipio, showed similar indifference to civilians in many cases, but it is certain that even in the most brutal atrocities in Rome, Caesar's capture of Gaul was abrupt.

Vercingetorix put his weapon at the feet of Caesar (1899), Lionel Noel Royer.

Even though these casualties are lower than reported, they are still far beyond normal wars. Even if the Roman public is happy to see the story of brutal Gauls being slaughtered and transported in droves, this can't erase the seriousness of Caesar's crime. Of course, many of the casualties were Gaul combatants, but many more-probably most slaves-were innocent women and children, civilians and non-combatants.

All this is due to Caesar. Like most conquerors in history, he just wanted to satisfy himself by achieving greatness. For him, this means destroying countless unknown tribes. But so are those people. Millions of people's lives and dreams were shattered by the boots of a completely dominant military planner.

After Caesar, more people went to tarquin than anyone else to make themselves king of Rome. In the process, they effectively destroyed the country to satisfy his desire for absolute power, and always obeyed his friends and enemies ... He was the last tyrant of Rome: because of him, the future of the Roman tyrant could live a more favorable name.

While touting Caesar's talent, we should also solve the problem of what he does with it. In other words, he used his talents to plan what we call genocide, then overthrew his government and made himself king.