Western Civilization I / Unit 6 WC1 0520 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Pompey, Crassus, Caesar: The First Triumvirate, 60 BCE
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The idea
Pompey and Crassus, Sulla's men, crushed Spartacus and became consuls. Pompey cleared the pirates and took the East, returning about sixty-two, the conventional date, to be refused land for his men. In sixty, a witness date, he, Crassus and Caesar made a private pact.
In practice
Pompey's land, Caesar's Gaul, Crassus's Parthia.
Where people slip
The anchor's sixty-seven for Pompey's return is recorded, not used.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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