Subject |
Date Published |
Contributer |
Language |
Total Questions |
File Name |
History |
14th February 2009 |
Andy Newton |
USA |
76 |
wbe32.zip |
Right click and select "Save File as" |
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Nemo James - Singer Songwriter
AGE OF CIRSIS |
Economic collapse, invasions, civil war |
ANTONINES |
Pius and Aurelius - Super good and skilled |
ANTONINUS PIUS |
138 - 161. 4/5. Never left Italy. Some unrest - but peaceful |
ATELLAN FARCE |
Buffoonish comedy. Atella an Oscan town in Campania |
AURELIAN |
270 - 275, Took over Palmyrene (transpalestine), and Gallic emperors |
BAR KOKHBA |
Led the second Jewish revolt |
BARRACKS EMPERORS |
Low class commoners. Border commanders. Paid troops with public seizure of property - hurt economy. Maximinus Thrax, Gordian I Gordian ii, Pupienus and Balbinus, Gordian III, etc |
CARACALLA |
211-217 - killed Geta. Paid legionaries better. 212 granted citizenship to freemen increased taxes to pay soldiers |
CASSIUS DIO |
Roman history - 80 books 983 years (took 22 to write), arrival of apneas to 229. More detail after Caesar |
CIRCUS MAXIMUS |
Hippodrome - Chariots, hugely popular, 250k spectators |
COMMODUS |
177-192 little crazy - thought of himself as Hercules |
CONSTANS |
3rd child of Constantine. defeated brothers. sole ruler |
CONSTANTINE |
Inappropriately Augustus in 306. Ruled the west. 324 - Sole Augustus. Constantinople - Christian Rome, new capitol. Edict of Milan, officialized Christianity (sole state religion) |
CONSTANTINE II |
Eldest son. defeated by Constance at Aquileia |
CONSTANTINIUS |
Caesar in the west under Maximian. Augustus in the west after Maximian's forced retirement |