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Social Studies Chapter 8 People to Know
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| Julius Caesar | smart leader, eager for power, dictator. he killed and enslaved and uprooted millions of Gauls. He captured huge amounts of gold. |
| Octavian | Son of Julius Caesar, the first emperor of Rome, received the Augustus title |
| Virgil | says that other cultures may produce beautiful art or fine philosophers and astronomers, but Romans are most fit to govern. |
| Caligula | one of the worst emperors, was insane, proclaimed himself God and was a cruel unfiar ruler, was removed from official records |
| Nero | one of the worst emperors, was insane, murdered his half brother, his mother, and his wife. was removed from official records |
| Hadrian | greatest of the five "good emperors", worked hard to build a government. His laws protected woman, children and slaves |
| Marcus Aurelius | last of the "five good emperors", father of Comodus. |
| Comodus | a terrible leader, ruled with great brutality. His reign ended the age of peace and prosperity that rome had enjoyed under its five prefious emperors |
| Cicero | great senator, expressed Roman feelings about law |
| Justinian | created a code of justice from roman law |
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