Essay Plan UPDATED

Introduction, establish the power hungry players who went to any measure to gain more power for themselves.

Paragraph 1- How Caesar helped end the republic during his life by retaining his emergency dictator powers, however during the war with Pompey he appeared quite reasonable, such as suggesting that they both lay down their arms and let the people decide PAGE 285 fall of the Roman Republic

Paragraph 2- How Pompey caused to end of the republic by insighting civil war

Paragraph 3- How Octavian ended the republic by naming himself emperor and officially bringing to an end

Paragraph 4- How the conspirators caused the end of the Republic by killing Caesar

Paragraph 5- How the Senate ended the republic by looking out for their own selfish interests and being easily manipulated

Conclusion

Essay thinking

I am currently trying to create and essay plan for the question "To what extent was Julius Caesar responsible for the fall of the Roman Republic".

At the moment I am thinking about what Caesar did during his life to give himself more and more power during the wars, as well as in his death as he made Octavian his heir who then became the first emperor offically ending the Roman Republic. I will also however have to consider how Caesar was offered a crown and turned it down and how Octavian becoming emperor was not entirely his fault as others gave him the honor.