Nero

Question 1

How long was his reign?

Answer 1

54-68CE

Question 2

What was the good things in his reign?

Answer 2

-He ended the more odious features of Claudius’s reign like the secret trials, and the corrupt Greeks.
-He made circus bloodshed, and capital punishment illegal
-he reduced taxes
-he allowed slaves to make complaints against their masters

Question 3

When did everything go downhill?

Answer 3

When he sentenced his wife and mother to death- his mother was ‘insane’ and his wife because he had fell in love with another woman.

Question 4

What bad things did he do?

Answer 4

-He was violent and cruel
-he fancied himself as a poet, a Charioteer, and a lyre player
-he was obsessed with Greek culture ang grew out a beard and walked around barefooted, which the Romans did not like.
-He persecuted Christians

Question 5

How and when did he die?

Answer 5

June 9, 68CE he committed suicide after he fled from the city when he was declared a public enemy