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Roman Emperors. Part II. The Year of 4 Emperors (68 A.D.). 4 Emperors fight for Rome You don’t need to know them but just FYI (Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian) Vespasian Wins Builds Coliseum Titus Inaugurates Coliseum Vesuvius Erupts. 5 Good Emperors. Why good?
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Roman Emperors Part II
The Year of 4 Emperors (68 A.D.) • 4 Emperors fight for Rome • You don’t need to know them but just FYI (Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian) • Vespasian Wins • Builds Coliseum • Titus • Inaugurates Coliseum • Vesuvius Erupts
5 Good Emperors • Why good? • 1) Improved ability to govern • 2) Succession without Civil War • 3) All decent men (no Caligula’s or Nero’s)
Nerva (96 A.D. – 98 A.D.) • What you need to know about Nerva
Trajan (98 A.D. – 117 A.D.) • Expands Empire to greatest extent • Wipes out all Dacia (Romania) • Trajan’s Column
Hadrian (117 A.D. – 138 A.D.) • First Emperor to have a beard (facial hair becomes fashion) • Strengthens Rome’s holdings • Hadrian’s Wall (across Scotland and England – it’s still there)
Antoninus Pius (138 A.D. – 161 A.D.) • A big fat lot of nothing
Marcus Aurelius (161 A.D. – 180 A.D.) • Philosopher-King • Plague sweeps empire (20-40% of empire dies) • Population problems • Barbarian invasions • Has son named…
Commodus • NOT one of the good emperors (Marcus Aurelius is the last of the good emperors) • Gladiator (story is false) • Commodus did not murder his father • Rome begins decline Real Commodus Not Real Commodus
Other notables and not so much… • Pertinax (193 A.D.) • Praetorian Guard names him Emperor • Doesn’t pay them so they kill him and auction off the Empire • Bought by…
Didius Iulianus • Emperor until the end of the year when… • Septimius Severus rules • 1st Emperor from Africa (Rome becoming less Roman) • Severus Alexander (225 A.D. – 235 A.D.) • Began giving citizenship away – didn’t have to work to get it • Rome becomes less important, no loyalty • Finally, the coolest name of all…
Pupienus • He didn’t do anything