West Civ Day #36- Nice Notes

Today in West Civ we took notes on sections that we read from the book because Mr. Schick was not here. So here they are:
-in 44 B.C. Caesar secured the votes to become dictator for life
-on the ides of March (March 15) Caesar was lured into the Senate house unarmed and was killed
-this death only made things worse for the Senate
-new emperors would be on their way to become leaders of Rome
-Mark Antony a commander under Caesar and Caesars grandnephew Octavian fought each other
- they joined forces in order to fight Caesar's assassins, Brutus and Cassius
-they would defeat Cassius and Brutus in Greece
-they forced Senate to say that Julius Caesar was a "Divine Being"
-Marcus Lepidus was also part of the group working with Mark and Octavian
-Lepidus would rule North Africa, Antony in Alexandria, and Octavian in Rome
-Antony's affair with Queen Cleopatra made him unpopular in Rome
-he would try to make conquests on the eastern frontier but failed
-Octavian would push Lepidus out of power in order to gain that territory and push Rome toward the Danube
-Octavian would defeat Antony and Cleopatra's forces in a naval battle off of Greece
-Antony and Cleopatra would both commit suicide within a year
-Rome's art, law, philosophy, literature, architecture were based off of the Greeks
-Latin became dominant language
-Augustus/ Octavian refused  the offer or a long-term dictatorship
-he was made commander and chief of the military so he allowed the Senate to supervise Italy and Rome
-he killed many opponents in the Senate and replaced them with friends and allies
-people's assemblies lost their last bit of power
-Greek-cities started to worship Augustus
-shrines of Augustus and Rome began to jump up in the empire
-when he died the Senate declared him a divine human being like Julius Caesar
-it became customary for emperors to be worshipped
-Augustus got the title Father of the Fatherland
-he was one of many Roman wealthy men making their way up the ranks
-Augustus had a combined army of 600,000 men
-by end of his rule all of his soldiers were volunteers
-later emperors gave the soldiers Roman citizenship
-he created the worlds first professional standing army
-Augustus added Egypt, lands from Italy to Greece to the River Danube, a wide swath of Germany to the east of the Rhine
-he chose a successor so rule could continue
-Augustus settled on Tiberius, Livia's son
-Augustus adopted Tiberius as well
-Augustus died in 14 A.D.
-Nero was the last descendent of Caesar was overthrown
-after a brief civil war, Vespasian was made emperor
-in the second century Marcus Aurelius son was killed and another civil war
-Septimus Severus was made emperor
-Augustus' government lasted until the trouble times in the third century
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