italy and it's provinces

Question 1

there isnt much to say about _____ _____ as an emporor cause he was peaceful

he handed it off to _______

Answer 1

Antonius Pius

Aurelius

Question 2

Marcus Arelius wrote the _____ called ______ ____ ______, in which he talked about his philosophy and opium

Answer 2

the meditations
letters to myself

Question 3

there was a series of _______ in marcus aurelius’ time

name some

Answer 3

disasters

The parthian war
The set borders enticed the parthians to harass them

Natural disasters
Plague
Earthquakes
Famine

Question 4

who was marcus Aurelius’ successor and why was it diff

Answer 4

Broke the tradition and names his 18 year old son commodus as emperor

Question 5

what was weird about commodus renaming himself

Answer 5

Series of names that alk about how good and unbeatable he is

Renamed himself “Amazonius invictus pius………….. Hercules romanus ecsuperstorius”

Question 6

commodus fought in ________ ____ where eveyone but him had to use ______ _____

Answer 6

gladitorial games, wooden swords

Question 7

commodus Believed himself to be ______ and a reincarnation of _____

Answer 7

hercules, mithras

Question 8

commodus dress himself as a _____

Answer 8

lion

Question 9

how did commodus die, what happened to the throne

Answer 9

Assassinated on Dec 31st
The throne is auctioned off

Question 10

_________ ________ gets the throne
he was from _______ but raised in _______

Answer 10

Septimius Sererus
phonecia, central africa

Question 11

what were Sererus’ military reforms

Answer 11

First this he did was disbanded the praetorian bodyguards, and then disbanded his opponents

Increased pay of military

Made rome a military state

Question 12

sererus said wherever he was was the ______

Answer 12

capital

Question 13

sererus’ wife Julia _______, which meant _____
became an ______ of sorts
know as the ____ of thins such as the army

Answer 13

domna = mistress
empress
mother

Question 14

The _______ dynasty is a failed attempt to have a dynasty of the caracalla bloodline

didnt work

Answer 14

severan

Question 15

severian dynasty-

______ murderers brother ______

Answer 15

Caracalla murderers brother seta

Question 16

caracalla makes the law of consitutis antoniana,

what did it say

Answer 16

Set up this law that said that every roman inhabitant that was free was a citizen

Some people criticised him for just wanting the taxes

Gave all all free people rights

Question 17

during the severian dynasty, the romans were being attacked by _______, _____, and ______

Caracalla as _______ by officers in his army

Answer 17

germany, armenia, parthia

Question 18

________
Tries to negotiate peace, reduce military pay
Assassinated by his troops
Elagabalus

Answer 18

Macrinus

Question 19

__________
Worshipped syrian sun god Elah-Gabal
Supported by the female relatives in his family
Ruled for ___ years
Openly __________
transgender/transvestite
Assassinated by his __________

Answer 19

Elagabalus

4
homosexual
bodyguards

Question 20

_______ ______

14 when we took over
Assassinated by his soldiers cause he was trying to ______ the germans to cease hostilities and they didn’t like that

Answer 20

Serus Alexander

bribe