Rome - Municipal Reforms, Augustus, Italy: The dictator Julius Caesar, the first to try to deal with the problems of Rome in a systematic way, did not live long enough to carry out his plans, which included canalizing the Tiber and building up the Campus
Caesar did cross the Rhine in 55 and 53 bce, but the river formed the eastern boundary of the province of Gaul, which he created, and most Germanic tribes lived beyond it. Direct Roman attacks on Germanic tribes began again under Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus, who pushed across the Rhine...