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Why did Brutus and other Senators assassinate Julius Caesar? What really happened as a result of his assassination?

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Brutus and the other senators murdered Julius of the fact of his power, which overruled the senates, due to the military being on his side, him being popular with the people and his achievments for rome.

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They assassinated Caesar because they wanted to save Rome from tyranny. Julius’s grandnephew/adopted son renamed himself Augustus Caesar and took over the Roman Empire.
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