Roman Empire and Roman Peace

Do Now (U4D8)12/9/2013

Write your Answer on an index card

Question: Why did Roman Senators conspire and kill Julius Caesar?

Homework: Compete Roman Emperor Chart and Reading

Pivotal Question 1

What occurred directly after Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44 BCE?

Civil War

Rome plunged into civil war after Julius Caesar’s death

Octavian Augustus Mark Antony

Second Triumvirate

Octavian, Antony, and Marcus Lepidus in 43 BCE

Lepidus expelled in 36 BCE

Octavian influenced the west

Mark Antony influenced the East

Mark Antony and Cleopatra

Antony met Queen Cleopatra in 41 BCBegan having an affair

Antony’s wife, Fulvia, was jealousBegan a civil war with Octavian

Fulvia dies of illness in 40 BCAntony and Octavian reconcile

Antony marries Octavian’s sister to demonstrate their friendship

Antony and Octavian

Friendship is destroyed in 32 BCE

Antony has lived in Egypt with Cleopatra Fathers children with Cleopatra

Octavian turns public opinion against him

Pivotal Question 2

How did Octavian turn public opinion against Mark Antony?

Octavian becomes Augustus

Senate gave Octavian the title of Augustus, or exalted one

Careful not to use the word—king

Romans hated “kings” since Etruscan times

Octavian exercised absolute power

Augustus ruled as emperor from 31 BCE to 14 CE

A Stable Government Under Augustus

Left the Senate in place

Created a civil service open to all citizens

Cemented the allegiance of cities and provinces to Rome by allowing them a large measure of self government

Augustus order a census, or population count

Set up a postal service and issued new coins to make trade easier

What are the achievements of other Roman Emperors during the Pax Romana?

What is the Pax Romana

Pax Romana: Means Roman Peace

Aa state of comparative tranquility throughout the Mediterranean world from the reign of Augustus (27 BCE–14 CE) to that of Marcus Aurelius (CE 161–180).

The empire protected and governed individual provinces, permitting each to make and administer its own laws while accepting Roman taxation and military control.