Transcript Roman Emperors

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Reign
 27 BC to 14 AD
 Adopted son of Julius Caesar
 Defeated Brutus and Marc
Antony
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Legacy
 Established the Empire
 Pax Romana
▪ “Roman Peace”
 Political Stability
 “I found Rome a city of brick
and left it a city of marble!”
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Death
 Natural Causes
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Reign
 14 AD to 38 AD
 Adopted son on
Augustus
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Legacy
 Secluded rule, growing
tyranny
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Death
 Possible natural causes
or assassinated by
Caligula
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Reign
 38 AD to 41 AD
 Tiberius's great-nephew
and adopted grandson;
great-grandson of
Augustus.
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Legacy
 Insane
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Death
 Assassinated involving a
conspiracy of Senators and
Praetorian Guard
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One of Worst Emperors!
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Reign
 41 AD to 54 AD
 Nephew of Tiberius, uncle
of Caligula; proclaimed
emperor by the Praetorian
Guard.
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Legacy
 Conquests and
administration
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Death
 Possibly natural causes or
poisoned by his wife
Agrippina
▪ Agrippina favored her son
Nero
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Reign
 54 AD to 68 AD
 nephew of Caligula, step-
and adopted son of
Claudius; great-greatgrandson of Augustus.
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Legacy
 Good rule at first, then
insanity; Rome burns,
Christians persecuted
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Death
 Committed suicide after
being declared a public
enemy by the Senate
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One of Worst Emperors!
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Galba
 Murdered by Praetorian
Guard
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Ortho
 Committed Suicide
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Vitellius
 Murdered by Vespasian's
Troops
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Vespasian
 Rules from 69 AD to 79
AD
 Natural causes
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Reign
 79 AD to 81 AD
 Son of Vespasian
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Legacy

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Coliseum
Death
 Natural Causes
▪ The Plague
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Reign
 81 AD to 96 AD
 Son of Vespasian,
brother to Titus
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Legacy
 Rebuilt Roman Buildings
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Death
 Assassinated by court
officials
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Reign
 96 AD to 98 AD
 Appointed by Senate
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Legacy
 Transition of Power
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Death
 Natural Causes
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One of the Good
Emperors!
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Reign
 98 AD to 117 AD
 Adopted son and heir of
Nerva
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Legacy
 Strengthened Empire
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Death
 Natural Causes
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One of the Good
Emperors!
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Reign
 117 AD to 138 AD
 Adopted son and heir of
Trajan
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Legacy
 Rebuilt Pantheon
 Hadrian's Wall
 Relation with Army and
People
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Death
 Natural Causes
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One of the Good
Emperors!
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Reign
 138 AD to 161 AD
 Adopted son and heir of
Hadrian
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Legacy
 Strengthened Empire
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Death
 Natural Causes
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One of the Good
Emperors!
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Reign
 161 AD to 180 AD
 Adopted son and heir of
Antoninus Pius
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Legacy
 Wars and increased
power of Empire
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Death
 Natural Causes
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One of the Good
Emperors!
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Reign
 177 AD to 192 AD
 Natural son of Marcus
Aurelius
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Legacy
 Little interest in being
Emperor
 Ruled with brutality and
cruelty
 Enjoyed fighting as a
Gladiator
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Death
 Assassinated in palace,
strangled to death
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One of Worst Emperors!
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Reign
 218 AD to 222 AD
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Legacy
 Controversial, Cruel,
Semi-Insane
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Death
 Assassinated by
Praetorian Guard
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One of Worst
Emperors!