davisaugustuscaesar

Home , Entertainment , Weapons and Supplies of a Roman Soldier    Aqueducts,Construction and use of Roman Roads, Slavery, Augustus Caesar Augustus Caesar Imagine that you have complete control over Rome  and its empire. Imagine that anything you say goes, nothing is questioned. You are now the emperor of Rome , just like Augustus Caesar was. What did you say? Did you just say that you don’t know who Augustus Caesar is? Well then read this page, because if you don’t know who Augustus Caesar was you’ll never survive in Ancient Rome. This page is all about Augustus and his accomplishments and other things that he did. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> Source: ABC Clio <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">
 * 1) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Augustus Caesar was Rome’s first emperor, as first emperor he oversaw the final demise of the Roman Republic.
 * 2) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">He introduced a system of rule called Principate.
 * 3) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Augustus was born in 63 B.C.
 * 4) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Augustus was a nephew of Julius Caesar.
 * 5) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">When the assassination of Julius Caesar happened Augustus found out that he had been adopted by Julius Caesar and had become his heir.
 * 6) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">He went with a very large army to fight the people who had assassinated Caesar.
 * 7) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">He made an alliance with his friend Mark Antony, but this alliance did end and did not last.
 * 8) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">When he got back to Rome he started giving himself official, and unofficial ranks of power.
 * 9) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Under Augustus’s reign, the Roman world grew strong and amazingly rich.
 * 10) <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">After Augustus died in 14 A.D., <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Rome <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> had to find someone to replace a position that did not officially exist.