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Hadrian was one of Rome’s greatest emperors!  1. Hadrian was born on January 24, 76 AD most likely in Rome.  2. He became Consulate at the age of 32 which was very young.  3. He became Emperor in August 117 AD   4. When he was Emperor he spent most of his time travelling through the empire.  5. He was responsible for developing much of Rome’s “foreign policy”.  6. He wanted to have man-made or natural boundaries for the empire.  7. He had a wall built that established the boundary of Rome called Hadrian’s Wall.  8. Hadrian’s Wall was built in AD 122-130 and is 73 miles long.  9. Hadrian had the wall built to keep the Picts from invading the empire.  10. Hadrian was very intelligent and was a good soldier and leader.  11. He was one of the top five emperors of Rome.  12. Hadrian had his picture printed on coins and there is a statue of him with a full beard.  13. He had a full beard even though most of the men prefered being clean shaven.  14. Emperor Hadrian designed many Roman buildings because of his love of architecture.  15. He died 138 AD on July 10th. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> 16. After Hadrian’s death he was even respected as a Roman god. 17. Today we have the same governmet structure as the Romans did when Hadrian was in power. here is the coin that hadrian was pictured on some parts of hadrians wall are still standing today! even though the body of hadrians statue is in pieces, the head is still perfectly together!