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Do you agree or disagree? Julius Caesar committed treason by crossing the Rubicon. why?

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Julius Caesar did indeed commit treason by crossing the Rubicon because it was legally proscribed that if any army-leading general crossed the boundary it would start a coup d'etat which was strictly forbidden. Because of the crossing, it started the Roman Civil War.
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