- principate - begun by Augustus
prima porta Augustus - famous statue of Augustus showing that he is God like (some of julius caesar)
- Ulius desended from God venus
- Romans held standards - bronze pole with insignia of there leagion
- S.P.Q.R abriviation of Rome
- when augustus was emperor, he lost 2 leagions in a battle
- statue is political propiganda
- standing above the Gods
Agustus dies without an heir
- Tiberius becomes emperor
- crule man and was later exiled
- Then Caligula takes thrown
- liked to have peole murdered in front of him / special relationship with sister / menataly messed up
- Empire throw into caos and he is assasinated
- Then Claudius becomes emperor
- didn't want to be emperor
- very shy and descent emporer
- replaced by Nero
- he burned down rome becuase he wanted to build a park
- then built a palace in the park
- forced to commit suicide - sais the world id loosing a great artist
- rome is then thrown inot upheavel for a year
- then Vespasian comes into power
- no nonsence
- Rome over 1 millian people in Rome and very diverse
- Then his son Titus comes into power
- nocked down Neros gold statue and built a the colosium
- Arch of titus - built to honor Titus's distruction of Jerusalum
- tension between romans and jews in Jerusalum
- Titus sacks city and burnes down the temple/ taking treasures
- then domitian takes power
- tough and crule
- built major bath complex
- every day romans whent to baths
- all roman cities had baths
- was assasinated
Good emperors
- Nerva 96-98
- changes the way emerors was chosen
- chose who would be the next emeror
- trajan 98-117
- went to war against Dacins
- colum built about the war
- Hadrian 117-138
- greates of all roman emperors
- largest empire
- poet, philosiphers states man
- had beard - wanted to be seen as greek philosipher
- Antonius Pius 138 -161
- Marcus Aurelius 161 - 180
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