Question: Does the pope sanction "democracy" as a righteous reason for war?

If the pope does not sanction a war you get a police action and no one wants to join up. Therefore when the pope sanctions a righteous reason for a war he is a militant. Benedict will sanction a war against Israel because they assassinated julius Caesar and his son.

Answer: I repeat, real history is much more interesting than the stuff you are making up.

Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 B.C.E.

Even if the Jews did the deed, why would the new born Christian Church founded about 33 C.E. by Jesus Christ concern themselves about the the death of the leader of the government that was persecuting them?

With love in Christ.

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Question: statisically, could every man of European and/or Asian descent be descended from Genghis khan?

i heard that 1 out of every 200 males in Eurasia are probably descendants of Genghis khan. i also know that anyone who lived in Europe before 1400 AD and lived to have kids is the ancestor of everyone of European stock today. so, could Europeans be descended from Genghis khan at least statistically? is this probable?

Answer: no

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Question: What was the relationship between Julius Caesar and Pompey?

Answer: The basic problem was ego: Caesar wanted to be treated as Pompey's equal and Pompey saw himself as having no equal.

In fact, throughout the early stages of the war, Caesar made frequent offers to lay down his arms if Pompey would do the same. Pompey persistently refused, on the grounds that Caesar was his subordinate and was duty-bound to cease his advance and dismiss his armies before any negotiations could take place.

Pompey was not too bright. He consistently got into trouble when he failed to follow up opportunities when fighting with Caesar. Eventually he lost one too many battles. Pompey fled to Egypt, where he was murdered by an officer of King Ptolemy XIII.

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Question: why did julius caesar defeat pompey?

Answer: Gauis Julius Caesar, Pompey and Crassus were the most important and powerful men in Rome. GJC and Pompey didn't get along terribly well; but Crassus kept them together, acting as a buffer and moderator. He helped get Pompey to marry GJC's sister to Pompey.

After GJC turns this into an appointment to the General and an assignment to Gaul- which took a number of years to do, and brought him many loyal veterans and most importantly, lots of booty.

While he was out, Crassus died of natural causes; Pompey, also a General, who had conquered much of Anatolia to crush pirates in the area, divorced GJC's sister; and started a smear campain against his lone rival for Rome.

GJC obviously didn't like that, and took his loyal troops to Rome; crossing the Rubicon- Pompey chose to retreat to his power base- away from Rome.

GJC then was able to smear Pompey, call him a coward; and took off after Pompey.

Their forces clashed, with GJC coming out on top. Pompey continued to Egypt to seek an alliance with Ptolomy XII, the current Pharaoh and ruler of Egypt (who had been supposed to be sharing the throne with his sister, Cleopatra VII). Fearing GJC, Pompey ordered Pompey's execution, to which GJC was not happy and commented how sad it was that such a great man met that end.

GJC then had Ptolomy killed and installed Cleopatra VII on the throne, marrying her to her other brother, Ptolomy XIII.

It was later that she came to Rome, and bore GJC's son Ceasarian (who was later killed by Augustus). the Romans didn't like her, and propaganda built up by the elite, and the Senate killed him.

Ironically, he died at the feet of Pompey. He was killed in the Theater of Pompey, which had his statute of course.

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