| A | B |
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| Galba | governor of Spain proclaimed emporer at the death of Nero |
| Otho | Galba lost ___ support when he adopted Licianus as his heir and successor |
| Nymphidius Sabinus | Praetorian Perfect also renounced his support for Galba when Galba named a replacement for him |
| Domitian | enjoyed attending senate meetings while wearing full purple toga and was tickled pink when the poets addressed him as dominus et deus |
| AD 69 | Year Domitian had almost been killed when troops loyal to his father stormed the Capitoline |
| Domitia | wife of Domitian responsible for the plot to assassinate the emperor |
| Vespasian | emperor remarked as he was dying "vae, puto deus fio" |
| They deified him | even though vespasian was half joking when he made the remark, the senate gave this honor to Vespasian after his death |
| Divus | Latin word used to designate an emperor who has been deified. |
| Titus | First century AD emperor called the "darling of mankind" |
| 2 Years | Titus reigned this long |
| natural causes | Titus died this way |
| Vespasian | Attempted to restore financial stability after the extravagence of Nero and caused an increase of provincial taxation |
| Colosseum | famous landmark in Rome that owes its existence to the construction programs of Vespasian |
| AD 80 | Year the construction of the Flavian Amphitheater completed |
| Cremona/ Bedriacum | Italian town which 2 battles ook place in AD 69 resulting in the ascension of 2 emperors |
| Valens and Caecina | 2 Generals who were the victors at the first Batle of Cremona |
| Vitellius | emperor of Rome as a result of the victory of Valens and Caecina |
| Titus | Responsible for the sack of Jerusalem in the first century AD |
| Pompey | The last Roman to sack Jerusalem before Titus |
| AD 70 | Year Titus sacked Jerusalem |
| Galba | incited by Vindex to put forth his claim as emperor of Rome |
| Domitian | accepted the title Germanicus after he successfully quell a series of rebellion in the Rhine region |
| Chatti | tribe responsible for this rebellion against Rome |
| Vespasian | the last emperor to move the boundary between the Rhine and the Danube prior to the revolt of the Chatti |
| Agricola | Vespasian appointed ___ as governor of Britian in AD 78 |
| Frontinus | Agricola's predecessor as governor of Britain |
| Mona/ Anglesey | island Argicola defeated the Druids and the Ordovices |
| 300 Denarii | emporer Domitian raised the annual pay of a legionary soldier from 255 denari to this |
| Centurion | rank of soldier recieved 1500 denarii per annum |
| 3000 | amount of denarii given to a retiring soldier |
| Deceballus | prince of Dacia that led an army across the Danube during the reign of Domtian |
| (Cornelius) Fuscus | preatorian prefect of Domitian that led the Roman troops into military disaster in AD 86 |
| Saturninus | led revolt caused Domitian to make a quick peace treaty with Decebalus |
| Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho | first 7 Emperors of Rome in chronological order |
| Vitellius, Vespasian | Next 2 Emperors after the first 7 |
| Titus, Domitian | Next 2 Emperors after the first 9 |
| Piso Licinianus | Chosen by Galba as heir and coregent |
| Verginius Rufus | general of Upper Rhine recalled by Galba leading to another revolt that year |
| (Aulus) Vitellius | Galba replced Rufus with him |
| Valens and Caecina | two men intrumental in securing the victory for Vitellius at the first battle of Bedriacum |
| Titianus | Otho called from Rome to act as his commander in chief for the first battle of Bedriacum |
| Suetonius Paullus | former governor was one of Otho's generals at the first battle of Bedriacum |
| Saturninus | governor of Upper Germany revolted agains Domitian in 89 AD |
| Trajan | future emperor called by Domitian to bring up a legion from Spain to help him in Domitians race to put down the rebellion |
| Executed cousin Flavius Clemens / exhiled cousin Flavia Domitilla | 2 actions commited around 95 AD against his own family due to his mistrusts |
| Otho | ex husband of Poppaea Sabina spurned by Galba when choosing an heir |
| Lusitania | Roman providence Otho had been serving as governor when Nero commited suicide |
| Danube | Otho most likely should've waited for reinforcements. Still loyal area which these legions marching to Rome |
| Cerialis | There were 3 great generals who solidified the roman conquest of Britian during Vespasians rule. The first of these generals operating from 71 to 74 AD after putting down a revolt on the Rhine |
| Frontinus | second of these generals operating from 74 to 77 AD and noteable for writing the Strategemata and On the Aqueducts |
| Agricola | finial general of Vespasians reign father-in-law of Tacitus who operated from 77 to 84 AD finally being recalled by Domitian |
| Domitia | frightened by the now violent Domitia, most likely organized a conspiracy to bring about the death of the emperor |
| Stephanus | Domitia used to murder the emperor |
| Damnatio Memoriae | punctuated most notably by this action taken by the Senate against his name |
| Galba | "capable of being emperor had he never ruled" said by Tacitus |
| L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi Licinianus | Galba named as heir |
| Otho had Galba murdered by the praetorians | result of the selection of Piso as heir |
| Vespasian | 1st emperor born an equestrain |
| Vitellius | emperor of 69 AD relied on his legates Fabius Valens and A. CAecina Alienus to win the first battle of Bedriacum |
| Otho | emperor of 69 AD governor of Lusitania |
| (Flavius) Sabinus | Vitellius surrendered to ___ when he heard that Vespasian was marching on Rome |
| Brothers | How were Sabinus and Vespasian related |
| Urban Prefect | Flavius Sabinus held this position under Otho |
| The Temple was destroyed / worship was forbidden | along with the abolition of the Jewish council of the Sanhedrin and the office of the high priestthis major facet of Jewish life was destroyed after the victory of Titus in the Jewish war |
| They were unable to seek converts | this restriction was put on the Jewish religion in the terms of increasing member of the faithful |
| The Pharisees | Jewish faction survived Titus's reforms most successfully |
| Domitius Corbulo | Domitians cognomen, from which Domitian arises, was in honor of this martyred general from Nero's reign |
| His marriage to Domitia Longina | honorary link that became all the more real with this action of Domitian |
| Tiberius | Domitian studied the acts of this former emperor intensely as this emperor became a role model in his reserve, grimness, and austerity |
| Titus | successfully captured Jerusalem in 70 AD thereby effectively ending the Jewish War |
| Claudius | In this persons court Titus was educated |
| Britannicus | son of Claudius who befriended Titus though he was later poisoned |
| Berenice | Jewish princess who appeared to the Romans in the same pictures as Cleopatra VII |
| Titus | Berenice was having an affair with |
| when Titus became emperor he dismissed her to quell public opinion | the result of the affair between Titus and Berenice |
| Stephanus | assassinated the emperor Domitian in 96 AD |
| Domitia | wife of Domitian who was also involved in the plot to assassinate Domitian |
| Cn. Domitius Corbulo | father of Domitia |
| Cn. Iulius Agricola | governor of Britain who circumnavigated the the island in 83 AD |
| Calcedonians | fierce northern tribe Agricola won a great victory against in 83 AD |
| Tacitus | son in law of Agricola who wrote a biography about him |
| Domitian | assumed the title of censor perpetuus in 85 AD |
| Vespasian | emperor who had revived the use of the censorship to recruit qualified provincials and native Italians to the Senate |
| dominus et deus | Domitian prefered to be called this by the Senate |
| Pliny the Elder | Roman commander and author was killed on the beaches of Stabiae trying to rescue survivors from the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius |
| Misenum | Town in which Pliny the Elder's fleet based in |
| Titus | Pliny the Elder later served under this emperor in Germania |
| Ti. Iulius Alexander | governor of Aegyptus had his 2 legions proclaim Vespasian emperor on July 1, 69 AD |
| C. Licinius Mucianus | governor of Syria shortly thereafter declared in favor of Vespasian |
| hold grain shipments in Alexandria | While Mucianus and his legions were to march to Italy, Vespasian and his forces were assigned to do this |
| L. Verginius Rufus | halied as imperator by the Rhine legions in opposition to Galba but refused to accept the crown |
| Vindex | revolt that Rufus previously put down in Gallia Lugdunensis |
| Vesontio | Where Rufus decisively defeated Vindex |
| Britannia | province which Cerialis later became governor of |
| Sex. Iulius Frontinus | future governor of Britain assisted Cerialis in his suppression of Civilis' rebellion |
| Q. Petillius Cerialis | at the request of Vespasian he crushed the revolt of C. Iulius Civils ( the Batavian Rebellion) in 70 AD |
| L. Clodius Macer | rival to power that Galba had executed in October of 68 AD after previously encouraging him to revolt against Nero |
| Africa (Proconsularis) | Location of Macer serving as a legatus at the time of his revolt |
| C. Nymphidius Sabinus | praetorian prefect who encouraged Galba to march on Rome after the suicide of Nero |
| C. Iulius Civilis | Batavian prince who took advantage of the chaos caused by the civil wars of 69 AD to lead a rebellion to form the Gallic Empire |
| Iulius Classicus | Gallic cavalry commander defected to Classicus in 70 AD and attempted to spring the neighboring Gallic tribes into revolt |
| Q. Petellius Cerialis | dispatched to suppress the rebellion by Vespasian in 70 AD |
| Rhodes / Samos / Byzantium | Vespasian was famous for his many forms of taxation. one of his actions was to abolish "duty/tax free" cities and areas by assigning them to these provinces and forcing them to pay taxes |
| Greece | Province loved by Nero hadd been granted independence and freedom from taxes. Vespasian also restored this province to the Senate |
| Temple of Peace | Vespasian was not opposed to spending money however. He built this magnificent temple in his new Forum of Vespasian |
| Berenice | sister of Herod Agrippa II became involved with Titus reviving the memories of Antony and Cleopatra and was the only potential blemish on Titus's character in the eyes of the Roman people |
| Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae | memorable physical disaster of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius destroyed these three cities in Campania aalong the Gulf of the Bay of Naple |
| Stabiae | This city is were Pliny the Elder was seeking to save citizens when he himself perished |
| Dercebalus | Beginning with his invasion of Moesia this young king drew Roman's attention and later conquested Dacia |
| Domitian | Man that suffered a sharp reversal against the Dacians in 89 AD |
| Romania | Equivalent to Dacia in the modern world today |
| Masada | Jewish fortress and residence of Herod the Great that withstood a Roman assualt until it was finally overpowered in 73 AD |
| Flavius Silva | Commander of Roman legionaries in the siege of Masada |
| Josephus | Jewish historian that provided an eyewitness account of the destruction of masada |
| Stoics | philosophical sect that became especially vocal in its criticism of the principate until Vespasian expelled it from Italy |
| Helvidius Priscus | Especially harsh critic that was exiled by Nero returned under Galba and was exiled again under Vespasian then finally executed |
| Cynics | similar philosophical sect that preached political anarchy and also freely offered criticism during the Flavian ERA |
| Securing transportation of grain to Rome | purpose for Vespasian to create a classis Alexandria or Alexandrine fleet |
