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WH Emperors
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Main persecutor of Christians | Nero |
| Became emperor at 17 | Nero |
| Youngest Roman Emperor | Nero |
| Emperor through marriage | Nero |
| Brought greek art into rome | Nero |
| Killed his own mother | Nero |
| At first good emperor then influenced in a negative way (killed many people) | Nero |
| Brought architecture into Rome | Nero |
| "Fiddled while Rome burned" | Nero |
| Built golden palace | Nero |
| Condemned to death; decided to commit suicide | Nero |
| Hungry for praise | Caligula |
| Had no prior experience | Caligula |
| Selfish, unethical | Caligula |
| Gave first pay to soldiers | Caligula |
| Paid back those who were cheated by taxes | Caligula |
| Sexually attracted to his sisters | Caligula |
| Solved all problems without leaving Italy | Antoninus Pius |
| Gave loans to Farmers | Antoninus Pius |
| Used his own money to fix stuff in empire | Antoninus Pius |
| Refurbished oldest bridge and coliseum of Rome | Antoninus Pius |
| Gave children who were conceived between people who were not married (bastard children) rights | Antoninus Pius |
| Number 3 of the five good emperors | Hadrian |
| Got very sick (heart problem) | Hadrian |
| Built a wall for military defense | Hadrian (hadrian wall) |
| Loved literature and traveled | Hadrian |
| Tutored by Livy | Claudius |
| Wrote several stories | Claudius |
| Conquered and colonized Britain | Claudius |
| Extended Roman citizenship | Claudius |
| May have been poisoned by his wife | Claudius |
| Granted freedom to an enemy kind | Claudius |
| Member of Roman army | Trajan |
| Redistributed land taken by Domitian | Trajan |
| Suffered stroke: partially paralyzed | Trajan |
| Known for his building projects | Trajan |
| Over controlling | Domitian |
| Not accepted into senate | Domitian |
| Spoke in riddles | Domitian |
| Raised taxes (built new structures) | Domitian |
| Wen with what the people wanted (not always what was best for the people though) | Domitian |
| Killed by his ex-wife's husband and the senate | Domitian |
| Stole another mans wife | Domitian |
| Enemies: senate and ex-wife | Domitian |
| Adopted by Augustus | Tiberius |
| Became Augustus's successor | Tiberius |
| Wanted the state and senate to act without him | Tiberius |
| One of Romes greatest generals | Tiberius |
| Favored son that Augusts made him adopt | Tiberius |
| Didn't want to be emperor | Tiberius |
| Good emperor and first, then a bad one (people were happy when he died) | Tiberius |
| Army: was well disciplined | Vespasian |
| Died from natural causes | Vespasian |
| "Woah, i think im becoming a god" (said this on death bed) | Vespasian |
| Founder of Flavian Dynasty | Vespasian |
| Started construction of Coliseum | Vespasian |
| Ordered to stop trials of treason reasons (Maid to kill people who were impaired for any reason) | Titus |
| Ordered triumph (from war) | Titus |
| Died three years after reign | Titus |
| Problems: Mount Vespius erupted and fire in Rome (for three days) | Titus |
| Defeated Jewish rebellion | Titus |
| Unfit to rule, self-indulgence, lazy, glutenous | Vitellius |
| Ruled for only a year | Vitellius |
| Self absorbed | Vitellius |
| Over ate always - glutenous | Vitellius |
| Emperor only by senate not people | Vitellius |
| Won supporters by acts of kindness | Vitellius |
| Killed mother - to fulfill prophesy | Vitellius |
| Became fond of capital punishment and killing people, executions | Vitellius |
| created enemies for himself | Vitellius |
| Murdered by people of Vespasian's army and was thrown in Tiber River | Vitellius |
| Under his rule, Rome came into a lot of "breads and circuses", murders, too much fun | Vitellius |
| Wanted to improve diplomacy | Nero |
| Enemies: Christians | Nero |
| Last words: "what an artist the world looses in me" | Nero |
| loyal , military ability | Galba |
| Listened to untrustworthy advisers | Galba |
| Created elephant tight roping - entertainment | Galba |
| Rewarded 3 priesthoods | Galba |
| Resigned position | Galba |
| Chose Pisu to be next emperor | Galba |
| Was Killed, along with Pisu, by Otho | Galba |
| Tortured then killed | Galba |
| best friends with Nero | Otho |
| Nero had an affair with his wife | Otho |
| A conqueror, ambitious, strong | Otho |
| Wanted to overthrow Vitellius | Otho |
| defeated by Vitellius | Otho |
| ruled for only 8 weeks | Otho |
| Governor of Lusitania | Otho |
| Rewarded imperial titles | Otho |
| No math for Vitilius's army | Otho |
| Killed himself because he was stressed | Otho |
| "It is far more just to parish one for all than many for one" | Otho |
| "Do every act of your life as if it were your last" | Marcus Aurelius |
| "Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish" | Marcus Aurelius |
| Intelligent, hardworking, and serious minded student, compassionate emperor, kind, had high principles, successful | Marcus Aurelius |
| Philosopher | Marcus Aurelius |
| persecuted those who believed in Jesus Chris | Marcus Aurelius |
| Introduced reforms to existing law in order to improve the civil system and in in the treatment of slaves, widows, and children | Marcus Aurelius |
| Many wars broke out under his rule, but the empire remained strong | Marcus Aurelius |
| "last and sometimes the best of the Five Good Emperors" | Marcus Aurelius |
| helped publication of 12 texts called "Meditations" which gives a full background of his religious and moral values | Marcus Aurelius |
| Treated gladiators with kindness and tried to help improve the standard of living of the poor and the children | Marcus Aurelius |
| copious amounts of enemies, yet his empire stayed strong | Marcus Aurelius |
| Did not believe in life after death | Marcus Aurelius |
| "death was desirable, because it would make an end to all the desires" | Marcus Aurelius |
| cruel when young (until matured), took criticism and had a good sense of humor, strict | Augustus |
| exiled his daughter and his grand-daughter for offending against his principles | Augustus |
| Governed in public interest | Augustus |
| Laid the foundation for a stable government | Augustus |
| Created a well-organized civil service to enforce the laws | Augustus |
| Adjusted tax system and made it fair | Augustus |
| Ordered a census (or population count) | Augustus |
| Set up a postal service and issued new coins to make trade easier | Augustus |
| Put the jobless to work by building roads, building temples, and farming the land | Augustus |
| High level jobs open to men of talent regardless their class | Augustus |
| Restored as may as 80 temples | Augustus |
| Encouraged marriage and childbearing; used legislation to do so | Augustus |
| Roman empire was to be divided between Antony and Octavian aka... | Augustus |
| Senate declared war and he won | Augustus |
| Thought he was ill, passed down his power to his closest heirs | Augustus |
| Body was taken to Rome and his ashes were placed in his Mausoleum | Augustus |
| Mother was the daughter of Julia, sister to Julius Caesar | Augustus |
| Created a new Constitution | Augustus |
| became the first senator | Augustus |
| Very religious | Augustus |
| "I found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble" | Augustus |
| Built storehouses and aqueducts for the people of Rome (specifically the poor) | Nerva |
| Helped families with their taxes | Nerva |
| Ruled for 16 months | Nerva |
| Received the title "pater patriae" which means "father of the country" | Nerva |
| First of five good emperors | Nerva |
| Died from a heat stroke and fever | Nerva |
| Raped Domitian | Nerva |
| enemies (Domitian's followers) took him hostage and and was forced to watch his closest advisers and friends killed | Nerva |
| first emperor to choose his successor by their potential ruling capabilities and not by their family lineage | Nerva |
| adopted Trajan | Nerva |
| provided land for poor | Nerva |
| Created a forum which was seen as a center for peace and tranquility | Nerva (Forum of Nerva) |
| did not lead Rome into any wars or battles | Nerva |
| First emperor of Pax Romana | Augustus (Octavian) |
| Second emperor of Pax Romana | Tiberius |
| Third emperor of Pax Romana | Caligula |
| Fifth emperor of Pax Romana | Nero |
| Sixth mperor of Pax Romana | Galba |
| Seventh emperor of Pax Romana | Otho |
| Eighth emperor of Pax Romana | Vitellius |
| Ninth emperor of Pax Romana | Vespasian |
| Tenth emperor of Pax Romana | Titus |
| Eleventh emperor of Pax Romana | Domitian |
| Twelfth emperor of Pax Romana | Nerva |
| Thirteenth emperor of Pax Romana | Trajan |
| Fourteenth emperor of Pax Romana | Hadrian |
| Fifteenth emperor of Pax Romana | Antoninus Pius |
| Sixteenth emperor of Pax Romana | Marcus Aurelius |
| Fourth emperor of Pax Romana | Claudius |
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