Empire

Question 0

In what year were Augustus and Agrippa co-consuls?

Answer 0

28 BC

Question 1

Who was Augustus’s last co-consul before becoming emperor?

Answer 1

Agrippa

Question 2

What does Augustus do in 27 BC?

Answer 2

Makes a big show of giving up powers

Question 3

What is Augustus voted in 27 BC?

Answer 3

Proconsular Imperium over the two Spains, Gaul, Egypt and Syria

Question 4

What does Augustus get or renew in 23 BC?

Answer 4

Tribunicia Potestas

Question 5

What pre-Republican position does Augustus renew and who does he elect to fill the position?

Answer 5

Praefectus Urbi, Messala

Question 6

For how long does Messala spend in the pre-Republican position?

Answer 6

He stepped down after 6 days due to senatorial opposition

Question 7

Who is Augustus’s first choice for succession?

Answer 7

Marcellus

Question 8

What is the original relationship between Marcellus and Augustus?

Answer 8

Marcellus is the son of Augustus’s sister, Octavia, by her first husband.

Question 9

What did Augustus do to extend the relationship between himself and Marcellus?

Answer 9

He had Marcellus marry his daughter Julia

Question 10

What happened in 23 BC when Augustus fell gravely ill?

Answer 10

He passed the signet ring to Agrippa since Marcellus was not old enough assume the Principate.

Question 11

What happens when Marcellus dies?

Answer 11

Augustus has his daughter marry Julia marry Agrippa (Agrippa made to divorce wife)

Question 12

Who does Augustus adopt after Marcellus dies?

Answer 12

The children of Agrippa and Julia: Gaius and Lucius Caesar (the remaining child was named Agrippa Postumus)

Question 13

Whose heart fails in 12 BC?

Answer 13

Agrippa

Question 14

Why can’t Gaius and Lucius Caesar become rulers in 12 BC?

Answer 14

they are too young

Question 15

Who does Augustus look to when Gaius and Lucius cannot be adopted?

Answer 15

Tiberius, Livia’s son by Tiberius Claudius Nero

Question 16

Who was Tiberius’s little brother?

Answer 16

Drusus I

Question 17

How and when did Drusus die?

Answer 17

He died in Germany 9 AD by falling off a horse

Question 18

How did Gaius Caesar die?

Answer 18

from wounds at Armenia

Question 19

What happens after Gaius and Lucius Caesar die?

Answer 19

Augustus officially adopts Tiberius

now obvious successor

Question 20

Who else does Augustus adopt after the death of Gaius and Lucius Caesar?

Answer 20

Agrippa Postumus, the last remaining child of Agrippa and Julia

Question 21

Who does Augustus make Tiberius adopt?

Answer 21

Tiberius’s nephew, Germanicus, the son of Drusus I (Tiberius’s brother) and Antonia (daughter of Antony and Agrippina)

Question 22

Who does Augustus make Germanicus marry?

Answer 22

Agrippina, a daughter of Agrippa and Julia

Question 23

Who is Tiberius’s son and why is he relegated to unimportance?

Answer 23

Drusus II since he is only Claudian, not Julio-Claudian

Question 24

Who does Augustus personally fight in northwestern Spain?

Answer 24

Cantabrians and Asturians

Question 25

What happens when Augustus’s health fails in northwestern Spain?

Answer 25

Agrippa defeats the Cantabrians and Asturians through enslavement

Question 26

What foreign region does Augustus divide?

Answer 26

Gallia Comata

Question 27

What is Gallia Comata divided into?

Answer 27

Lugdunensis, Aquitania, and Belgica

Question 28

What does Augustus form in the Alpine region of Italy?

Answer 28

a veterans’ colony

Question 29

Where does Augustus form a veterans’ colony?

Answer 29

Auguta Praetoria

Question 30

Who were Augustus’s stepsons that helped to subdue different regions?

Answer 30

Tiberius and Drusus I

Question 31

Where did Augustus’s stepsons subdue?

Answer 31

Raetia (Switzerland) and Noricum (Austria and Tyrol)

Question 32

What happened from 12-9 BC?

Answer 32

Drusus I did well against the Germans, but this ended when he broke his leg falling off a horse

Question 33

Who took Drusus’s place after his death?

Answer 33

Tiberius