Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Notes 3/10/10 west civ proj

  • 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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