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What Roman emperor was born Lucius Aelius Aurelius, but changed his first two names to math his father’s when he died?

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M. Aurelius COMMODUS Antoninus

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How long did Commodus rule for?

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12 years (of neglect), from 180 to 192AD

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Who did Commodus dress up as?

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Hercules

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Which of Commodus’ freedmen sold 25 consulships in one day?

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Cleander

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What emperor established a secret police known as the Frumentarii

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Commodus

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What was Commodus’s secret police called?

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Frumentarii

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What did Commodus rename Rome?

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Colonia Commodiana

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Who was Commodus’s wife, and who was his mistriss?

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Wife was Crispina, mistress was Marcia

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Who was Commodus’s sister, who tried to kill him in 182 AD?

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Lucilla

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What emperor permanently abandoned the wall of Antoninus in Britain and pulled the boundary back to Hadrian’s wall?

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Commodus

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Which emperor competed as a gladiator?

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Commodus

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How did Commodus die?

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Strangled by wrestling partner Narcissus in the bath after Marcia, his mistress failed to poison him

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When was the year of 5 emperors?

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193 AD

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Who was the first emperor of 193 AD?

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Pertinax

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What does Pertinax mean?

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Persevering or obstinate

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Who helped Pertinax get the throne, but later led the guards who killed him?

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Laetus

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What did Pertinax do to avoid his family’s murders?

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Didn’t give them imperial titles

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Which emperor bought the throne in an auction?

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Didius Julianus

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Who did Didius Julianus outbid for the throne?

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Sulpicianus, Pertinax’s father in law

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How many sesterces did Didius Julianus bid per guardsman for the throne?

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25,000 sesterces

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What happened to Didius Julianus?

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Killed by Praetorian Guard

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Who ultimately was the ruler of 193 AD?

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Septimius Severus

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Where was Septimius Severus from?

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Leptis Magna (modern day Libya)

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Who was Septimius Severus’ wife?

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Julia Domna

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Who did Septimius Severus have to defeat for the throne?
Clodius Albinus and Pescennius Niger
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At what battle did Septimius Severus defeat Pescennius Niger?
Battle of Issus (194 AD)
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At what battle did Septimius Severus defeat Clodius Albinus?
Battle of Lugdunum (197 AD)
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What group people did Septimius Severus defeat, sacking their capital of Ctesiphon?
Parthians
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Who were the 5 emperors of 193 AD?
Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Clodius Albinus, Pescennius Niger, Septimius Severus
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What does Septimius Severus have to honor his sack of Ctesiphon (one of 5 times Romans sack it)?
An arch in the forum
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What emperor in the last year of his reign rebuilt Hadrian’s Wall across Britain?
Septimius Severus
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Where and when did Septimius Severus die?
Eboracum (York) in 211 AD
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Who were Septimius Severus' sons?
Geta and Caracalla
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What emperor's real name was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus?
Caracalla
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When did Geta and Caracalla rule together?
211 AD
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How did Geta die?
Caracalla killed him and "Damnatio Memoriae"d him
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Who granted citizenship for everyone in the empire in order to get more tax money?
Caracalla
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Where does Caracalla get his name?
From the Gallic cloak that he always wore
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What law granted citizenship for everyone in the empire, and who passed it?
Constitutio Antoniniana (212 AD), passed by Caracalla
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How did Caracalla die in 217 AD?
Killed when urinating on side of the road in Carrhae
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Who probably orchestrated Caracalla's death and was emperor after him?
Macrinus
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Who was the first emperor not of senatorial rank, and what rank was he?
Macrinus, who was of Equestrian rank
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Where was Macrinus from?
Mauritania
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Who helped plan the execution of Macrinus after being sent back to Emessa, Syria to get her grandson Elagabalus on the throne?
Julia Maesa
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Who did Macrinus rule with?
Diadumenianus, his son (only briefly)
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Who was emperor after Macrinus?
Elagabalus
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After what battle did Macrinus shave his beard to try to go unnoticed, before eventually being discovered and killed?
Antioch
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What emperor's real name was Varius Avitus Bassianus?
Elagabalus
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How old was Elagabalus when he was made emperor?
14
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Who was Elagabalus' mother?
Julia Soaemias
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What was Elagabalus' real name?
Bassianus
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Which emperor would catapult snakes into a crowd?
Elagabalus
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Who did Elagabalus worship?
Elagabal/Helios
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What cult was Elagabalus a part of?
Sol Invictus
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What emperor worshiped a conical black stone that he had shipped from Syria?
Elagabalus
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Who orchestrated the death of Elagabalus?
Julia Maesa (his grandma)
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What Syrian city was Elagabalus from?
Emessa
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How did Elagabalus die?
Killed when hiding in a latrine, body thrown in Tiber
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Who was Elagabalus' cousin and the last Severan emperor?
Severus Alexander
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Who was Severus Alexander's mother?
Julia Mamaea
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Who was Elagabalus and Severus Alexander's shared grandmother, making them cousins?
Julia Maesa
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What empire replaced the Parthian Empire in 224 AD during Severus Alexander's reign, and who started it?
Ardashir started the Sassanid Empire
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Who essentially ruled during Severus Alexander's reign?
Julia Mamaea and praetorian prefect Ulpian (Ulpian was killed in front of Severus Alexander though)
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How did Severus Alexander die in 235 AD?
Maximinus Thrax (8 foot tall Thracian) cut of his head and put it on a spike
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Name the Severan emperors
Septimius Severus, Geta, Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus, Severus Alexander
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Who was Septimius Severus’ second wife, and mother to Geta and Caracalla?
Julia Domna

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