Emperors of Rome

Question 1

Pax Romana

Answer 1

“Roman peace,” refers to the time period from 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E. in the Roman Empire. This 200-year period saw unprecedented peace and economic prosperity throughout the Empire

Question 2

Who were the emperors during the pax romana?

Answer 2

Octavion (Augustus)
Tiberius
Caligula
Claudius
Nero
Vesperian
Trajan

Question 3

Who were the emperors during the fall of rome?

Answer 3

Hadrian
Marcus Aurelius
Commodus
Diocletian
Constantine
Theodosius

Question 4

Octavion (Augustus) 31BC -14AD successes

Answer 4

Won Liberator’s civil war
brought back peace to Greco-Roman world
He made sure the city’s water system was repaired and he built two new aqueducts

Question 5

Octavion (Augustus) 31BC -14AD failures

Answer 5

He pursued a strict moral military mission
He made laws promoting child abuse
He failed to maintain the empire’s security in a certain area

Question 6

Tiberius 14-37 CE successes

Answer 6

Smooth succession from Agustus
Successful military campaigns
Expansion of Roman borders
deifies august after death (made him into a god)
right to abdicate (retire)

Question 7

Tiberius 14-37 CE failures

Answer 7

frugal
didn’t entertain the mob
treason trials (kills people close to him)

Question 8

Caligula 37 - 41 AD/CE successes

Answer 8

Completed various public works projects
Increased the pay for soldiers
Initiated the construction of two new aqueducts

Question 9

Caligula 37 - 41 AD/CE failures

Answer 9

lacked the personal experience to be suitable for the role
cruel and vicious
regarded as insane
made his horse member of senate
incest
own guards killed him

Question 10

Claudius 41 - 54 AD successes

Answer 10

Made major improvements to Rome’s judicial system
Extended citizenship
increased women’s privileges
successful in conquering britain
expanded into africa

Question 11

Claudius 41 - 54 AD failures

Answer 11

married 5 times
killed 4 wife to marry niece
Declared war on Poseidon by ordering Roman Soldiers to stab their spears into the ocean shore

Question 12

Nero 54 - 68 AD successes

Answer 12

Ended secret trials
Gave the Senate more independence
Banned capital punishment
Reduced taxes and allowed slaves to sue unjust owners
tried to assassinate his mom like 5 times and failed

Question 13

Nero 54 - 68 AD failures

Answer 13

political purges, tyrannical behavior
started the great fire of Rome
played the lyre while it burned
killed his mom (took him 6 tries)
captured christians, tied them up and lit them on fire
was kinda crazy tbh

Question 14

Vespesian 69 -79 AD successes

Answer 14

Funded a vast Roman building program which included the Temple of Peace, the Colosseum, and restoration of the capitol

Question 15

Vespesian 69 -79 AD failures

Answer 15

He asked the people of Rome to pay a bit more of their taxes to save Rome.
He used the tax money to build roads
He failed to bring Rome out of their depression

Question 16

Trajan 98 - 117 AD successes

Answer 16

Reduced taxes
Started a new welfare program for poor children
Giving out cash and increasing the number of poor citizens who could receive free grain
expands border
13 of 21 years outside of rome to keep provinces in control

Question 17

Trajan 98 - 117 AD failures

Answer 17

He killed and eliminated many advisers and family members whom he thought were a threat or interfered with his rule
He encouraged bloodsports
He encouraged gladiator fights and chariot races

Question 18

Hadrian 117 - 138 AD successes

Answer 18

He avoided war whenever possible
Spent Rome’s money well and strengthened the Empire
scottish
built hadrian’s wall to keep the barbarians out

Question 19

Hadrian 117 - 138 AD failures

Answer 19

He killed 500, 000 Jews before peace was made
He could be quite willful at times
He built the temple over the Jews temple to Solomon

Question 20

Marcus Aurelius 161 - 180 CE successes

Answer 20

He did his best to provide for his citizens through trying times
His ability to hold the Empire together through the Roman Empire’s first true pandemic , the Parthian War, and the Germanic Wars.

Question 21

Marcus Aurelius 161 - 180 CE failures

Answer 21

he was lazy as fuck

Question 22

Commodus 177 - 192 CE successes

Answer 22

Commodus brought an end to his father’s campaign against the Germans
After a failed assassination attempt in 182, however, his rule became erratic and brutal, and he imagined himself to be Hercules

Question 23

Commodus 177 - 192 CE failures

Answer 23

beginning to the decline of the roman empire
law that cursed him, name was stricken from all records
loved excesses, didn’t care for politics
slept with sisters
toilet named after him

Question 24

Diocletian 284 - 305 CE successes

Answer 24

Secured the empire’s borders and purged it of all threats to his power
separated and enlarged empire’s provincial divisions,
established the largest and most bureaucratic government
divide’s empire into half

Question 25

Diocletian 284 - 305 CE failures

Answer 25

brutal to christians, persecuted them
took non-romans into military and trained into effective soldiers

Question 26

Constantine 306 - 337 AD successes

Answer 26

Spread Christianity by legalizing practice and supporting the church’s activities
created constantinople
wins against western roman emperor
emperor of east and west

Question 27

Theodosius 379 - 395 CE successes

Answer 27

He allowed barbarian tribes to settle on Roman territory, and gave their leaders responsible positions

Question 29

Theodosius 379 - 395 CE failures

Answer 29

made all christans practice the same