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19 Cards in this Set
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Reforms of augustus |
Honest administration. Recruited an able civil service bureaucracy. Soldiers settled into providences Roads and aquaduct were built Police and fire protection |
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Virgil |
Greatest Latin poet and wrote the Aeneid |
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Horace |
Wrote odes and wrote lyrical poetry. Wrote Ars Poetica |
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Ovid |
Represented a revolt by the younger generation against classical tradition |
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Metamorphes |
Served as a treasury of classical mythology for later ages |
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Livy |
Wrote a monumental history of Rome and he glorified the Roman past |
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Cornelius Tacitus |
Was critical of the emperors who came after Augustus. Provided first accounts of the Germanic barbarians who invaded rome |
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Tiberius |
Stepson of Augustus, tried to continue his reforms. Went into seclusion |
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Caligula |
Grand-nephew of Tiberius, reputation for insanity and decadence before he was murdered by his own guard |
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Claudius |
Completed the conquest of Britain and improved Roman bureaucracy. He was poisoned by his wife |
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Nero |
Established a reputation for extravagance and curroption. He committed suicide instead of being captured. |
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Vespasain |
Established his family in power. Introduced frugal financial policy |
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Titus and Domitian |
Ruler after Vespasian. Domitian provided honest and capable rule but became suspicious and tyrannical as time went on |
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Nerva |
Was a Roman Senate. Nerva began the practice of an able man to be the new emperor |
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Trajan |
Born in Spain. Conquered Dacia and added gold mines. Roman rule extended to Mesopatamia. Financial relief, roads, and harbors were created. |
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Hadrian |
From Spain, surpessed an uprising by the news and strengthened the defenses of the Empire. Improvements in civil service and a law code for provinces were created |
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Antoninus pius |
Wanted reform. Funds were provided for the education of poor children and legal protection for slaves |
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Marcus Aurelius |
Last of good emperors |
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Commodus |
Poor emperor |
