The Creation of Rome CH 6 Flashcards
Second Triumvirate
Octavion, Antony, and Lepidus
Proscription
Public identification and official condemnation of declared enemies of the state.
Proscription eliminates political enemies and replenishes the Treasury.
Senatorial resistance had been definitively crushed at
Philippi
The decisive confrontation of the Final Battle in the war of the Roman Republic:
Battle of Actium
“Princeps” or “first man” a term from the republic meaning the:
Most distinguished senator
Augustus fundamentally transformed Rome’s political system into a:
Monarchy
Augustus’s true source of power:
Controlled the state’s treasury and loyalty of the army.
Augustus military reforms:
- He professionalized the army.
- Guaranteed soldiers pay and retirement benefits.
- He created the Praetorian guard.
Augustus’s contributions to Roman life: (same answer for all)
- Distributed grain
- Gladiatorial shows
- Prevent the citizenry from protesting and rioting
Bread and circuses
Establishes the first ________________ in western civilization.
Fire department
The goal:
Was stability and order not political freedom.
Pax Romana
(The Roman Peace)
The Julio-Claudians (5)
- Augustus
- Tiberius
- Caligula
- Claudias
- Nero
Insane tyrant:
Caligula
One legacy from ____________ was the precedent he established by bribing the Praetorian guard to back him as the new Emperor.
Claudias
He had his mother killed in 59:
Nero
In 60 Nero ________________________________ scandalizing the Roman elite.
Performed as a musician in public,
Victory showed the elite and the army wished to continue the Principate:
Vespasian
The worship of the Emperor as a living god and making sacrifices for his households welfare:
Imperial cults
First emperor to succeed his biological father:
Titus
The Five Good Emperors:
- Nerva
- Trajan
- Hadrian
- Antoninus Pius
- Marcus Aurelius
Period known as:
The Golden Age
The greatest military expansion in Roman history, and attained its maximum territorial extent:
Trajan
Believed the financial strain to be incurred in keeping on a policy of conquests was something the Roman Empire could not afford:
Hadrian