| A | B |
|---|
| Plotina | Wife of Trajan |
| Sabina | wife of Hadran |
| Lucilla | wife of Lucius Verus |
| Nerva / Trajan | emperor who began the program of alimenta to help support the poor children in the Italian countryside |
| Trajan | continued and greatly expanded the alimenta program |
| Forum Transitorium | begun by Domitian and was dedicated to Nerva (forum) |
| Septimius Severus | reorginized Roman social classes into the higher honestiores class and the lower humiliores class |
| Eboracum / York | Septimius Severus died here |
| not to disagree / give money to soldiers / ignore the rest | Severus gave this advice to his sons Caracalla and Geta upon his death |
| Trajan | emperor famous for his answer on 'how to deal with the Christians' of Bithynia |
| Pliny the Younger | governor of Bithynia recorded his correspondence with Trajan and later delivered the Panegyricus in his praise |
| optimus princeps | title Trajan received from the Senate in 114 AD |
| Caracalla | Severan who received a nickname based on the Gallic cloak he wore |
| Consititutio Antoniniana | edict that Caracalla pass granting citizenship to all |
| Parthia | Caracalla was killed while preparing to fight with this place |
| Macrinus | First emperor of true equestrian class following the death of Caracalla |
| Mauretania | Macrinus originally came from this providence |
| Caesar | Marcrinus elevated his son to this position in 217 AD |
| Iazyges, Quadi, Naristi | tribes that Marcus Aurelius fought during the Marcomannic Wars |
| Aquileia | city in Italy that was besieged by Germanic invaders marking the first foreign invasion of Italy since 101 BC |
| Vologases IV | Parthian king that surrendered to Lucius Verus in 165 AD after attempting to reestablish control over Armenia |
| Julia Mamaea | mother of Alexander Severus |
| Julia Soemias | mother of Elagabalus |
| Julia Maesa | grandmother of both Alexander Severus and Elagabalus and sister of Julia Domna |
| Hadrian | received the hostility of the Senate when he put to death four ex consuls for plotting against him |
| (Lusius) Quietus | one of the four consuls that was Moorish cavalry commander of Trajan |
| (A. Cornelius) Palma (Frontonianus) | one of the four consuls that was annexed Arabia Nabataea while governor of Syria in 106 AD |
| Antoninus Pius | emperor who had a wall built stretching form the Firth of Clyde in modern Scotland |
| Lollius Urbicus | commissioned to build wall |
| Platorius Nepos | built Hadrian's wall |
| Septimius Severus | proclaimed emperor at Carnuntum following the death of Pertinax in 193 AD |
| Issus | Severus defeated his rival Pescennius Niger (Governor of Syria) in battle at this place |
| Lugdunum | Severus defeated his rival Clodius Albinus (Governor of Britannia) in battle at this place |
| C. Avidius Cassius | supposedly encouraged by the empress Faustina Minor made a claim to the throne while the governor of Syria following his successes in L. Verus' war against Parthia |
| Ctesiphon | capital of the Parthain Empire that had Cassius captured in 164 AD |
| plague (smallpox) | besides plunder this was what the Roman soldiers returning from the Parthian campaign brought back |
| Hadrian | One of the 5 good emperors was nicknamed Graeculus and brought wearing a beard back into fashion |
| Simon Bar Kokhba | led Judea into rebellion in 132 AD |
| Antinous | Bithynian youth and favorite of Hadrian had a city founded near the spot he drowned in the Nile |
