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Roman Emperors

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The first Roman emperor Augustus
Augustus's birth name Gaius Octavius
Julius Caesar’s grandnephew and heir Augustus (Gaius Octavius)
The members of the Second Triumvirate Octavian, Marc Antony, and Marcus Lepidus
The person who helped Octavian sideline Lepidus and defeat Antony Marcus Agrippa
The battle where Antony was defeated, allowing Octavian to seize the empire Battle of Actium
Augustus’s chosen title, meaning "first citizen" (ruling style) Princeps
The elite unit of guards created by Augustus Praetorian Guard
The territory added to the empire by Augustus Egypt
The battle where Roman expansion into Germania was halted by a crushing defeat Battle of Teutoburg Forest
Augustus’s stepson and successor Tiberius
The central European regions conquered by Tiberius during Augustus's reign Pannonia and Raetia
Tiberius’s mother, who supported his rise to become imperial heir Livia
The island villa on which Tiberius mostly resided, unhappy as emperor Capri
The person left to manage the state by Tiberius, who attempted to seize power Lucius Sejanus
The year Sejanus was arrested and executed by Tiberius AD 31
The emperor when Jesus of Nazareth was crucified around AD 33 Tiberius
The emperor who was the son of Germanicus, Tiberius’s popular nephew Caligula
This was the nickname earned by an emperor from his father’s soldiers, meaning “little boot” Caligula
The tyrannical emperor who supposedly tried to make his horse, Incitatus, a consul Caligula
The year Caligula was killed by a conspiracy of senators and Praetorian guards AD 41
The conspirator who led the killing of Caligula Cassius Chaerea
Caligula’s uncle who became emperor after him Claudius
The noted scholar who was the last person able to read ancient Etruscan Claudius
The emperor who oversaw the conquest of Britain Claudius
The talented freedman who helped Claudius centralize power through a bureaucracy Tiberius Narcissus
Claudius's niece whom he married in AD 49 Agrippina the Younger
The person who poisoned both Claudius’s son Britannicus and the Emperor himself Agrippina the Younger
The son of Agrippina the Younger who became emperor Nero
The emperor who provoked scandal by performing as an actor and musician Nero
The emperor who ordered his mother’s death in AD 58 Nero
The conspiracy that led Nero to order the deaths of Seneca the Younger and several others Pisonian Conspiracy
The emperor who supposedly “fiddled” during the Great Fire of Rome and persecuted Christians after it Nero
The year Nero was deposed by the Senate and committed suicide AD 68
The emperor who led Rome to its greatest territorial extent Trajan
The emperor succeeded by Trajan Nerva
The Dacian king defeated by Trajan to conquer Dacia (modern-day Romania) Decebalus
The architect employed by Trajan to build Trajan’s Column and Trajan’s Bridge Apollodorus of Damascus
The capital of the Parthian Empire sacked by Trajan Ctesiphon
The territories annexed by Trajan near the end of his reign Armenia and Mesopotamia
Trajan’s younger cousin who succeeded him as emperor Hadrian
The emperor who withdrew from Trajan’s conquests in the east at the start of his reign Hadrian
The emperor who joined the Eleusinian Mysteries while traveling in Greece Hadrian
Hadrian’s beloved companion who drowned in the Nile while visiting Egypt Antinous
The structure commissioned by Hadrian to mark the border of Roman Britain Hadrian’s Wall
The emperor who crushed the Bar Kokhba revolt in Judea Hadrian
The last of Rome’s “Five Good Emperors” Marcus Aurelius
The emperor who inherited the throne from his uncle Antoninus Pius with Lucius Verus Marcus Aurelius
The plague dealt with by Marcus Aurelius during much of his reign Antonine Plague
The wars fought by Marcus Aurelius during his reign Marcomannic Wars
The major text of Stoic philosophy written by Marcus Aurelius (a journal) Meditations
The emperor who stabilized the empire after the Crisis of the Third Century Diocletian
The battle where Diocletian defeated Carinus to take power Battle of the Margus
The new system of imperial rule created by Diocletian with two senior and two junior emperors Tetrarchy
The proclamation issued by Diocletian to curb inflation, which was unsuccessful Edict on Maximum Prices
The emperor who led the last and largest persecution of Christians Diocletian
The first emperor to voluntarily step down, retiring to his palace in Split, Croatia Diocletian
The son of Constantius Chlorus, one of the junior members of Diocletian’s Tetrarchy Constantine
The battle where Constantine defeated Maxentius to seize Italy Battle of Milvian Bridge
The brother-in-law defeated by Constantine to win the east Licinius
The proposal giving tolerance to Christians Edict of Milan
The emperor who oversaw the Christian Council of Nicea Constantine
The city converted by Constantine into Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire Byzantium
The emperor who emerged from the Year of the Four Emperors in AD 69 to found the Flavian Dynasty Vespasian
The emperor who commissioned the Colosseum Vespasian
The emperor who triumphed in the Year of the Five Emperors and founded the Severan dynasty Septimius Severus
The first emperor to be born in Africa Septimius Severus
The emperor who reconquered territory lost during the Crisis of the Third Century Aurelian
The Palmyrene Empress defeated by Aurelian Zenobia
The last man to rule both the eastern and western halves of the empire Theodosius
The emperor traditionally regarded as the last Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus
The leader who deposed Romulus Augustulus in 476, marking the end of the Western Roman Empire Odoacer
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