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When Julius Caesar was assassinated, it was the last opportunity for Cassius, Brutus and the other conspirators. Caesar wanted to leave Rome to make war against Parthia; preparations and plans were on their way.

One could expect that Caesar would do better than Crassus. Other than the latter and later emperors fighting Parthia and Persia, he planned to advance through the mountains, where the Parthian cavalry would be useless. Also, he wanted to attack rather slowly in the beginning, to learn more about their ways of fighting.

Of course, Caesar might have to change his plans: Originally he had planned to go around the Black Sea after defeating the Parthians and attack the Germanics from the back, after which (as he hoped) he'd have reached the edge of the oceanos, which didn't exist, of course.

A successful war could establish the Roman Empire firmly in western Persia, save the remains of the Greek culture that Alexander the Great had brought, and would also have implications for Rome and Italy. Caesar wanted to organize his empire very differently than Augustus, seemingly leaving more of Rome's traditions in place, but instead controlling them as Caesar the god, and governing with his legions in the rest of the Empire - maybe from Antiochia or Alexandria.

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