Other Rulers

Question 0

Zenobia

Answer 0

Becomes queen of Palmyra at death of her husband Odenathus (AD 268)

Question 1

Valerian

Answer 1

Captured by Shapur I (about AD 260)

Question 2

Aurelian

Answer 2

Captures Zenobia and her son Vabalathus at Battle of Palmyra in AD 273; Aurelian is given the title “Restitutor Orbis”-restorer of the world (not one of the Barracks emperors).

Question 3

Diocletian

Answer 3

AD 284-305-tetrarchy-4 man rule= Diocletian and Maximianus were Augusti; Galerius and Constantius were Caesars. End of the Barracks Emperors.

Question 4

Constantine

Answer 4

AD 312-337; Beat Maxentius at Milvian Bridge AD 312 (he saw a vision- in hoc signo vinces); in AD 313, the Edict of Milan made Christianity legal; Constantine built and moved capital to Constantinople (Byzantium, now called Istanbul); became a Christian at his deathbed

Question 5

Julian (called the Apostate)

Answer 5

Edict of toleration in AD 362 ordered reopening of pagan temples and recalling of exiled Christian Bishops.

Question 6

Valens

Answer 6

Defeated by Goths at Battle of Adrianople in AD 378

Question 7

Alaric

Answer 7

Visigoth who sacked Rome in AD 410

Question 8

Aetius

Answer 8

Roman general who stopped Attila the Hun in AD 451 in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains

Question 9

Romulus Augustulus

Answer 9

AD 476; last emperor in west

Question 10

Odoacer

Answer 10

Becomes king of Italy in AD 476