When you ask for a hat and get murder instead

                Today in Western Civilization we continued watching our movie on Tiberius Gracchus. Despite his friends trying to stop him, Tiberius has Octavius removed from the tribunal council. This leads to the Senators talking about Tiberius trying to seize power as king. The Senators eventually rile up the Romans enough that they become a mob, and vandalize Tiberius’ house and destroy his possessions. Tiberius decides to run for a second term as tribunal, despite it being against the law so that the Senate cannot prosecute him for ‘crimes against Rome’ in court. As Tiberius approaches the stand to make a speech, he taps his head multiple times as a signal to his bodyguard, and this is misread by the Senators as Tiberius asking his bodyguards to bring his crown. Tiberius is then beaten to death by the Senators, despite his bodyguard’s best efforts. Tiberius’ body is dumped in the river and forgotten. After that we began a video on Caesar. The video begins with Caesar fighting the Gaul’s, and the Gaul’s appear to be winning. However, at the last moment, Caesar signals the cavalry and they demolish the Gaul’s. Caesar is on his way back to Rome, as the war is over, and the Senate becomes worried that Caesar will attempt to cease power on his way into Rome if he does not disband his army. The Senate overpressures Caesar to disband his army, and Caesar does not like the terms. Caesar doesn’t disband his army, and Rome is evacuated to Greece. Pompey (a Senator and general) leads and army against Caesar and loses after many years of fighting.