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Today Mr. Schick made and showed us a PowerPoint on the Roman Empire. We had to take notes, these are the notes I took:

• Octavian
  
  • Got title Caesar Augustus
    
  • 1^st empire in the Roman Empire
    
  • Began the Pax Romana
    
  • Built roads, aqueducts (bringing water from places)
    
  • Set up civil service(government) to take care of roads, the grain supply, even a postal service
    
  • Jesus was born at the time
    
  • Augustus died at age 76 by natural causes
    
• Tiberius
  
  • Time of Jesus and Paul
    
  • Augustus' stepson and adopted adopted son
    
  • Tiberius succeeded Octavian
    
  • Didn't get along with Senate
    
  • Senate- "men fit to be slaves"
    
  • Didn't want to be emperor
    
  • Germanicus- ally
    
  • Germanicus started to get powerful and looked like he was going to take over
    
  • Tiberius had him killed
    
  • Died at age 77 by natural causes (probably)
    
• Jesus
  
  • Roman citizen and a Jew
    
  • Began ministry at 30
    
  • Preached to the poor, reached out to outsiders
    
  • Wasn't popular when alive
    
  • A lot of things he said made people nervous, thought he was going to overtake the kingdom
    
  • Pontius Pilate, governor of the Roman province of Judaea, sentenced him to death
    
• Paul
  
  • He was riding his horse
    
  • Got kicked off and got blind
    
  • The first thing he saw was Jesus
    
  • He started to tell Jesus' story
    
  • People wrote letters to him asking questions
    
  • He wrote back to him
    
  • Letters in New Testament
    
  • Jesus became known because of him
    
• Most influential persons in history
  
  • 1. Muhammad
    
  • 2. Sir Isaac Newton
    
  • 3. Jesus
    
  • 4. Buddha
    
  • 5. Confucius
    
  • 6. St. Paul of Tarsus
    
• Caligula
  
  • Germanicus' son
    
  • Tiberius' adopted grandson and great-nephew
    
  • Started off well
    
  • Began to fight with Senate
    
  • Claimed to be a god
    
  • Had statues of him everywhere, like in a Jewish temple
    
  • Slept with other men's wives and bragged about it
    
  • Spent too much money
    
  • Tried to make his horse a consul and a priest
    
  • Critics said all this
    
  • Assassinated by his own aides at age 28
    
• Claudius
  
  • Ostracized by his family because of his disabilities
    
  • Had limp, slight deafness, possible speech impediment
    
  • Conquered Britain, no one else could
    
  • Built roads, canals, and aqueducts
    
  • Renovated the Circus Maximus
    
  • Had an awful marriage to Messalina
    
  • She was unfaithful, plotted to seize power for her lover Silius through a coup
    
  • Claudius had wife and her lover killed
    
• Religious troubles
  
  • Christianity and Judaism: monotheistic (one God)
    
  • Romans had many gods, plus at times the emperor was viewed as a god
    
  • A group of Jews called the Zealots tried to rebel, but Roman troops put them down and burned their temple (except for one wall)
    
  • The Western Wall is considered holiest site for Jews