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Chapter 2: Emperors and Madmen Quiz

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Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus The name of [blank_start]Augustus Caesar[blank_end]
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  • Augustus Caesar

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A literary form that cleverly ridicules human vices and folly: [blank_start]satire[blank_end]
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  • satire

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Gaius Valerius Diocletianus The name of [blank_start]Diocletian[blank_end]
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  • Diocletian

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Marcus Aelius Aurelius Verus Caesar The name of [blank_start]Marcus Aurelius[blank_end]
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  • Marcus Aurelius

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Titus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Antoninus The name of [blank_start]Antoninus Pius[blank_end]
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  • Antoninus Pius

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A government official appointed by a ruler who takes care of the day-to-day workings of government: [blank_start]bureaucrat[blank_end]
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  • bureaucrat

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An upper class of persons though to be the 'best' or most able to govern: [blank_start]aristocracy[blank_end]
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  • aristocracy

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Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus Name of [blank_start]Tiberius Caesar[blank_end]
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  • Tiberius Caesar

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The name of a division of the Roman army, numbering about five thousand soldiers: [blank_start]legion[blank_end]
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  • legion

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The "Roman Peace" a long period of relative peace in the Mediterranean world: [blank_start]Pax Romana[blank_end]
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  • Pax Romana

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First Roman emperor to order the persecution of the Christians: [blank_start]Nero[blank_end]
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  • Nero

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The death of Augustus: [blank_start]AD 14[blank_end] Diocletian's rule: [blank_start]AD 284-305[blank_end] The burning of Rome under Nero: [blank_start]AD 64[blank_end] The years of the Julian emperors: [blank_start]27BC - AD 68[blank_end]
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  • AD 14
  • AD 284-305
  • AD 64
  • 27BC - AD 68

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Author of 'Meditations' - a collection of stoic wisdom: [blank_start]Marcus Aurelius[blank_end]
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  • Marcus Aurelius

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The body of elected aristocrats or patricians that governed Rome: [blank_start]Senate[blank_end]
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  • Senate

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Established the principate, the imperial system of government: [blank_start]Augustus Caesar[blank_end]
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  • Augustus Caesar

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Title given by the Roman Senate to Octavian, nephew of Julius Caesar and founder of the principate: [blank_start]Augustus[blank_end]
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  • Augustus

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A division or small group of believers within a larger religious group: [blank_start]sect[blank_end]
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  • sect

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"Commander in chief", "supreme commander"; the title of a commander of several legions, given by the Senate first to Augustus and then held by all his successors: [blank_start]emperor[blank_end]
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  • emperor

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A government run by bureaucrats: [blank_start]bureaucracy[blank_end]
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  • bureaucracy

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Emperor who was a reformer of the just treatment of the poor: [blank_start]Hadrian[blank_end]
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  • Hadrian

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"first citizen": [blank_start]princeps[blank_end]
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  • princeps

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A philosophy that teaches that happiness can only be found by one who practices self-control and follows the natural law: [blank_start]stoicism[blank_end]
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  • stoicism

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Emperor when Christ was crucified: [blank_start]Tiberius Caesar[blank_end]
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  • Tiberius Caesar

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One of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built: [blank_start]Palatine hill[blank_end]
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  • Palatine hill

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Publius Aelius Hadrianus The name of [blank_start]Hadrian[blank_end]
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  • Hadrian

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Marcus Ulpius Trajanus The name of [blank_start]Trajan[blank_end]
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  • Trajan

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The new organization of government begun by Augustus, giving real power to the emperor or princeps: [blank_start]principate[blank_end]
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  • principate

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Counselor to Hadrian who later became emperor: [blank_start]Titus[blank_end]
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  • Titus

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A writer of satire: [blank_start]satirist[blank_end]
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  • satirist

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Nero Claudius Caesar Name of [blank_start]Nero[blank_end]
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  • Nero

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General of the Danube regions before becoming emperor: [blank_start]Diocletian[blank_end]
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  • Diocletian

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Family name of Gaius Julius Caesar: [blank_start]Caesar[blank_end]
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  • Caesar

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"General" who commanded several legions combined into an army: [blank_start]imperator[blank_end]
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  • imperator
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