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| Augustus | nephew to Julius Caesar, name was Octavian, Began the Roman Empire, held powerful and large army, Worked on internal affairs because he believed society is sick and dirty, revived old Roman ideals, legislated against adultery, gave religion more importance, established a permanent standing army, his reforms began patriotism, called princep meaning first citizen |
| Tiberius | During the first part of his reign, he improved civil service and military strictness, conspiracy and executions characterized the rest of hi reign, bad leader according to roman people and based on his principles, today scholars believe he was a good emperor |
| Caligula ( Little Boot) | named for his small shoes, made his favorite horse senator, demanded to be worshipped as a god, killed or exiled the majority of relatives, CRAZY, assassinated by officers who should have been guarding him |
| Claudius | peaceful, wanted to make southern britain part of rome, fought for respect, sensitive and generous, imroved courts |
| Nero | killed his wife and mother, blamed christians for the fire which burned half of rome, many believe he started the fire cuz he hated rome, known to be a drunk, worte a theme song when Rome began to burn, only good point was he housed the homeless and helped in rebuilding the city after the fire |
| Titus | destroyed jerusalem, completed the coliseum and had a 100 day festival after the completion of the coliseum, loved by people and ruled during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius |
| Domitian | popular wit the army, senate hated him because he tried to control the senate, named himself Dominus et deus, master and god |
| Nerva | tried to reduce cost of government, wise and worked moderately, let Senate have power, made Senate pass a low that the poor could buy land at lower price, maintained a law that said children of poor parents would live at public expense if they lived in Italy |
| Trajan | spent rule on military expeditions, built the forum of Trajan, public works done, new roads, canals, bridges, died of bad health |
| Hadrian | loved the arts, let the outer provinces go free in order to stop revolts and to consolidate the empire, built many walls ( Hadrian Wall ) which ended the days of Romes expansion. took many tours of empire and visited all roman provinces, wrote poetry and designed his own town |
| Antoninus Pius | reigned in peace, nly one major event occurred, a british revolt which forced him to build a wall |
| Marcus Aurelius | Warlike, spent much time securing areas where the German tribes were attacking and securing Mesopotamia, army brought back plague with them ( he died of it ), persecuted christians, wrote Meditations ( 12 series book about moral code in Rome ), interested in Roman affairs, tried to make masters easier on slaves, gave criminals a break, founded schools and hospitals |
| Constantine I | believed the sun god to be highest god, become co emperor in 305 and 19 years later is emperor, persecuting christians ended when he was sent a message by Christ that he would win a certain battle, made christianitiy legal because his mother was christian, Helen |
| Diocletian | troops proclaimed him emperor, Rome was replaced by Milan as capital of empire, Civil Officials collected taxes, renewed hatred against the Christians- biggest christian persecuter |
| 5 Good Emperors | Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius |
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