Movie Notes:
- pax romana - a long period of peace while Augustus was in charge.
- First century, right around where Christ was born
- Augustus had died after providing over forty years of peace
- The peace ended after he died
- years to come would be years of triumph
- the empire was now conquered land
- the Mediterranean (controlled by Rome) was probably the most important thing in the world; it was controlled by the Roman Empire in the first century
- Spain, Greece, Judaia, Syria, Africa were all controlled by the Roman Empire
The languages from these became to be known as "Romance" languages
- Augustus was declared a god by the Senate
- Tiberius his adopted son was given power.
- Augustus died 74 years of an illness, he was in charge since he was 18
- Tiberius in some ways was not that good to take charge
- He took over and problems started with one guy taking contol of everything
- Tiberius got divorced, but he still loved the girl.
Tiberius was Augustus' doctor son and he married Octavions real daughter, even know Tiberus didn't want to
- Granicus (younger) is going to come and try to take control of the situation
- caligela - "bootsy"