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Period: 285 BCE to 305 BCE
Diocletian
-required subjects to prostrate themselves in his presence
-hired german mercenaries for army
-forced people to stay in their jobs for life and pass them on to their children
-raised taxes and caused tax collectors to makeup for shortages -
Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE
First Punic War
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Period: 254 BCE to 164 BCE
Plautus
Rome's greatest playwright. Comedies -
Period: 218 BCE to 201 BCE
Second Punic War
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Period: 149 BCE to 146 BCE
Third Punic War
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Period: 104 BCE to 43 BCE
Cicero
Rome's finest orator. Believed in Natural Law. -
Period: 100 BCE to 44 BCE
Julius Caesar
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Period: 70 BCE to 19 BCE
Virgil
-The Aeneid -
Period: 58 BCE to 50 BCE
Gallic Wars
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44 BCE
Caesar Assassinated
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31 BCE
Battle of Acium
Octavian becomes the first emperor of Rome -
Period: 5 BCE to 67
Saint Paul
-originally named Saul
-knew Greek language
-persecuted follower of Jesus
-earliest writings of the new testament -
Period: 4 BCE to 29
Jesus
-grew up in nazareth
-circumcised in the temple age 12
-reappeared as an adult in his 30s
--baptized by john the baptist
-executed by Romans
-the prophet, basis of christianity -
30
Jesus is Crucified
between 29-33 -
Period: 81 to 96
Domitian
successful suppression of revolt in Germany. Clumsy with senate, murdered by senate. -
Period: 98 to 117
Trajan
-lowered taxes.
-provided relief for poor.
-conquered Romania and added it to the empire (and Britain) -
Period: 117 to 138
Hadrian
-Hadrian's Wall (in Britain)
-defeated Jew's in the second Hebrew revolt (132-35)
-Jews were dispersed and killed -
Period: 130 to 201
Galen
-medicine, anatomy
-basis for medicinal knowledge -
Period: 138 to 161
Antoninus Pius
"accused person should be considered innocent until proven guilty" -
Period: 161 to 180
Marcus Aurelius
-stoic philosopher
-end of pax romana
-selected his son, Commodus, as his successor -
Period: 205 to 270
Platinus
-Neo-Platonism -
Period: 235 to 285
Military Anarchy
There were 26 soldier-emperors, 25 of which died violently -
Period: 306 to 337
Constantine
-continued Constantine's transformations
-moved the primary capital of from Rome to a new city, Constantinople -
325
Council of Nicaea
-First ecumenical council
-Nicene creed -
Period: 329 to 379
Saint Basil
-no property
-silence -
378
Clash between Romans and Goths (Adrianople)
-worst defeat in Roman history
-Emperor Valens killed
-cavalry -
Period: 406 to 453
Attila the Hun
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410
Siege of Rome
-Britain abandoned
-production stagnated -
476
End of Roman Empire in the West
-German officer overthrows Romulus and places Odoacer on the throne -
Period: 480 to 543
Saint Benedict
-Benedictine rule became the standard for western monasticism -
Period: 527 to 565
Justinian
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532
Nika Riots
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Period: 570 to 632
Muhammad
-prosperous merchant in mecca
-visited by angel Gabriel
-seen as chosen prophet -
622
MIgration to Medina
-Muhammad and his followers migrated from Mecca to Medina (200 miles away) -
630
Mecca surrenders and accepts islam
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Period: 752 to 803
Irene
first woman emperor -
1054
The Great Schism
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1204
4th Crusade
sacked constantinople -
1260
Mongol control extended throughout the near east and into eastern Europe
