From Augustus threw September Servius

2. Patricians no longer want to be
in the Legions. The new
generation began to love
luxury.

3. Patricians had huge villas and
estates called latifundia worked
by thousands of slaves
throughout the empire

4. Octavian Augustus:
Rome’s First Emperor

5. Pax Romana 27BCE-:180CE

6. Augustus achievements
Civil War since Marius day, nobody
really remembered the old republic
Emperor
Called Caesar Augustus held
traditional Roman government
offices
1st Citizen
1st Consul for life
Tribune for life
Pontiff Maximums (Head Priest)
Imperator, or commander in chief.

7. Augustus achievements
Emperor
Successfully balanced
1. proletariat of Rome (free food,
wonders, games)
2. Senate appointing governors
3. Controlled armies by appointing
generals and moving them around.
4. Tries to revive traditional roman
virtues.

8. Augustus achievements
Emperor
Legions outside Italy except
Emperor's Praetorian Guard in
Rome.

9. Augustus achievements
The permanent forts throughout
the empire became roman cities.

10. Augustus achievements
The permanent forts throughout
the empire became roman cities.

11. Augustus achievements
The permanent forts throughout
the empire became roman cities.

12. Augustus achievements
Rebuilt and improved Rome
“I found Rome made of bricks
and leave you in marble”
• Baths of
Agrippa

14. Augustus achievements
Reorganized the Empire,
checked in Germany.

15. 5 Julio Claudian
Emperors
Direct relatives of Augustus

16. Tiberius 14-37 CE
• Good general
temporarily
Germany to the
Empire.
• Became a recluse
latter.

17. Caligula
• Crazy
• killed many
senators
• Made his horse
consul
•
• Killed by Praetorian
guard

18. Claudius 41-54 CE
• Good administrator
• building projects throughout
empire
• Conquest Britain, Judea
• Poisoned by his wife
• handicapped

19. Nero
• Built theaters and culture
throughout empire
• Murdered his mother and
many senators
• Many believe he started the
great fire of Rome
• Committed suicide
•

20. Nero

21. 69 the year of 4
emperors

22. Flavian Emperors 69-81
from Italy
• Vespasian: not a patrician
• built the Flavian amphitheater nicknamed
the Coliseum

23. Flavian Emperors 69-81
from Italy
• Vespasian: excellent General
• built the Flavian amphitheater nicknamed
the Coliseum

25. 3 Flavian Emperors
from Italy
• 80,000 could watch gladiatorial shows

26. Flavian Emperors
from Italy
• Titus crushed a revolt in Jerusalem then
destroyed the Second Temple of Solomon.

27. Domitian
• Ruled dictatorially
• Killed many
senators.
• Assassinated by
guards

28. 5 Good Emperors
from all parts of empire
• Imperial powers not hereditary
• Emperor would train and choose
best person in Empire as the next
emperor

29. Nerva

30. Trajan
• Expanded the
Empire to its
furthest.
• Rarely went to
Rome
• Huge building
programs throughout
the empire.
• Bigger social welfare

31. Emperor Trajan
The Greatest Extent of the Roman
Empire

32. Emperor Trajan
The Greatest Extent of the Roman
Empire

33. As Rome expanded East China
expanded west bringing two
great classical cultures into
touch

34. Hadrian 117-138
• The Empire becomes
defensive.
• Rarely came to Rome
• Huge building projects
everywhere

35. Hadrian and
antonitus
Hadrian's wall
England

36. Hadrian
German tribes
constantly attack in
the west.
Persians in the East.

37. Hadrian and
antonitus

38. Hadrian and
antonitus
Pantheon
exterior

39. Hadrian and
antonitus
Pantheon
exterior

40. Hadrian and
antonitus
Pantheon interior

42. Hadrian and
antonitus
Hadrian's Tomb
Vatican City
Used as a fortress
By the Popes
During Middle Ages

43. Antonius Pius
• Stops taxes for Roman
citizens.
• History about how
things became so
perfect.
• Politics about how
things should stay the
same.

44. • Virgil Roman Epic The Aenid
• Livy History of Rome
• Horace Poet Odes

45. Marcus Aurelius
• The stoic
philosopher wrote
Meditations.
• Did not adopt an
heir, his son
Commodus
succeeded him

46. Commodus
• A brutal monster
• ends Pax Romana
• Thought he was
Hercules
• Strangled by Guards

47. September Servetus 193-211
• First of the
Barracks emperors
• Legions decided
emperor
• Emperors rarely
visit Rome
• Senate reduced to
a city government

48. END Pax Romana
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