Test Wednesday

Today we went over our old Rome test and went on the material that will be on the test Wednesday.

• Old Rome test
• Octavian
• AKA Caesar Augustus.
• First real emperor.
• Begins the Pox Ramona - roman peace.
• Built roads and aqueducts.
• Set up civil service to take care of roads, grain supply and postal services.
• Died at age 76 in 14 AD.
• Passed his power to Tiberius.
• Jesus 
• a Roman citizen practicing Jew.
• At 30 he began his ministry. (31-33 AD)
• Statements like "my kingdom is not of this world" made the Romans and Jew's nervous.
• The governor of the Roman province of Judaea, Pontius Pilate, sentenced Jesus to death by crucifixion.
• Paul
• Was very important in telling about Jesus. (life, death, resurrection, message)
• Traveled; Cyprus, Anatolia, Athens, Coeinth, Rome, Jerusalem, Spain, Britain, Macedonia.
• Wrote letters to the people of the places he visited.
• Without Paul, Jesus was just an obscure preacher.
• Caligula
• Germanicus' son
• Tiberus' adopted grandson - next in line for emperor.
• Granted bonuses to military, made the governments spending a public matter.
• First 7 months of his reign were "completely blissful"
• He began to fight the Senate
• Claimed to be a god
• Cruel and insane; indulged in too much spending and sex. tried to make his horse a consul and a priest. slept with other mans wives and bragged about it.
• Assassinated by his own aides in 41 AD (age 28)
• Claudius
• isolated from his family because of his disabilities (cerebral palsy or polio)
• rose to the occasion; conquered Britain; built roads, canals, aqueducts, and renovated the Circus Maximus.
• awful marriage to Messalina, who was unfaithful to him, plotting to serve power for her lover Silius, - so Claudius killed them both.
• Religious Troubles
• Christianity and Judaism; monotheistic 
• Rome; many gods - some emperors viewed as gods
• 66 AD; Jews called Zealots tried to rebel. (Rome beat them and burned their temple)
• the Western Wall today in the holiest of all Jewish shrives.
• 1/2 million Jews died in the rebellion.
• Persecution and Christians
• Romans were harsh to worshipers.
• Christians were viewed as a cult.
• Often used for "entertainment" purposes.
• despite the oppression, Christianity grew quickly.
• by 200 AD around 10% of Romans were Christians.