The mighty Legions spread Roman civilization across the known world. Gladiators fought each other to the --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- death in the arena. Spartacus defied the might of the Senate and natural order of Rome. The almost- --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- invincible Hannibal took his war elephants across the Alps. Julius Caesar crushed the Gauls and then his --- RECORDSEPARATOR --- Roman rivals to become the supreme dictator of the Empire - and then met his end at the hands of assassins.