@BattleDwarfGimli Homework Task:
Read about Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar.

This should cover The Social War, The Spartacus Uprising, Sulla & Marius' Civil War, Caesar's Conquest of Gaul, Crassus' Parthian War, and eventually Caesar crossing the Rubicon.

Many lessons to be learned from reading about the last 40 years of the Roman Republic.