The+First+Triumvirate


 * The First Triumvirate (60BCE- 53BCE)**

Pompey is a very successful and honored general because of the campaigns he has completed. Prior to the civil war breaking out in Rome, Pompey had just completed a campaign in Asia Minor in which he restored order by establishing administrative systems to preserve peace in the years to come and also to create new annual taxes. Pompey thought that he had enough honor in Rome that he could get his war veterans property in Italy that they can grow and prosper on. He was declined for two years and finally met up with two other aggravated and powerful men, Caesar and Crassus. Caesar was angry with the senate because he was elected consul for the following year, 59BCE but was put in charge of Italy’s forests and cattle traits when normally he would be chosen to be part of a provincial governorship. Crassus was frustrated with a profitable tax collection venture in Asia and Pompey was struggling with the senate for the permission to let his war veterans live on the land. The three men create the first triumvirate in 60BCE so they can try to get what they want changed from the senate. Pompey consolidates this coterie by marrying Caesar’s only child Julia in 59BCE even though Pompey is older then Caesar. The men get what they want changed very quickly by Pompey’s veterans doing some selective rioting. The situation was resolved immediately by allowing Pompey’s Veterans to stay in Italy and live on the land, Caesar is to become in charge of the two Northern provinces; Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul, and Crassus’s business problems are resolved. Caesar then leaves for Gaul and eventually winds up concurring most of central Europe in those 9 years he is gone.