This emperor’s capture of Jerusalem was celebrated in an arch erected by his brother Domitian.

This ruler executed Helvidius Priscus for defending the Senate’s right to manage state finances.

This ruler seized power by joining forces with the Syrian governor Mucianus, who encouraged this man to implement his toilet tax.

This man declared “money does not stink” while issuing a toilet tax.

This man ordered Quintus Cerialis to put down the Batavi revolt.

After Licinius Mucianus failed to suppress the first Jewish Revolt, this man successfully did so.

This last of the Four Emperors founded the Flavian dynasty. He led the invasion of Britain and put down the Great Jewish Revolt.

Suetonius describes how this ruler was pelted with turnips while suppressing a riot as governor of Africa. This ruler appointed Tacitus’ father-in-law Agricola as governor of Britannia.

His own rise to the top came with allying himself to Licinius Mucianus and when Antonius Primus led his troops into the capital.

The Jewish prefect of Egypt, Tiberius Julius Alexander, supported this emperor while his army was winning the Second Battle of Bedriacum.

This man built a round mausoleum based on Etruscan tombs in the Campus Martius and built a temple to Mars the Avenger in his namesake forum.

This man’s fleet was commanded by Marcus Agrippa, who became his son-in-law.

He had his second wife, Scribonia, exiled to Pandateria.

Tacitus and Cassius Dio claim that this man died after eating some figs poisoned by his wife.

Cesarion was the last pharaoh of Egypt because this dude came and wrecked his shit. This guy was actually Caesar’s heir and adopted son and this guy’s naval commander Marcus Agrippa won the Battle of Actium.

After one of his generals defeated Sextus Pompeius at the Battle of Naulochus, this man removed a co-ruler governing Africa from power.

He is noted for writing a work known as “Res Gestae,” which described his rule in detail, and for utilizing illegal control over his five legions in the Mutina raid.

In those battles, Mutina and Actium, this man fought a man who had joined him and Lepidus in the Second Triumvirate.

This ruler exiled his daughter, Julia, to Pandateria to demonstrate harsh punishments for citizens who did not follow his strict marriage laws.

This ruler brought the minting of gold and silver coins under his personal control, and in order to cement an alliance with Sextus Pompey, he married Scribonia.

After losing at Callinicum, this ruler ended the Iberian war, and he was accused of being a demon with a detachable head by the Secret History of Procopius.

This ruler’s marriage to a Miaphysite may have led him to condemn the Chalcedonian Three-Chapters, sparking a feud with Pope Vigilius.

Pope Vigilius failed to endorse this ruler’s pro-Monophysite edict in the Three Chapters Controversy and was imprisoned, beginning the Byzantine papacy.

The Four Doctors of Bologna revived this man’s law code, the Corpus Juris Civilis.

Two of this ruler’s generals defeated King Totila at the Battle of Taginae and King Gelimer at the Battle of Tricamarum.

This leader banned the practice of buying and selling provincial governorships, which was known as suffragia [suf-ruh-JEE-uh].

A 541 AD plague occurred during the reign of this Byzantine Emperor, causing the reversal of Belisarius” conquests.

This man was alleged to have the ability to detach and replace his head in the scandalmongering Secret History written by his courtier Procopius (pruh-COPE-ee-uss).

Peter the Patrician negotiated the end of the Lazic War for this ruler, who had also ended a war with Khosrau I in the Perpetual Peace.

The Hagia Sophia was constructed under the reign of this man after destruction caused by the Nika riots.

This unstable Roman emperor began the first persecution of Christians after the Great Fire. Cassius Dio claims he played a lyre and sang while Rome was burning.

answer these questions relating to the Year of the Four Emperors.Galba, the first of the Four Emperors, took power after the suicide of this successor to Claudius. He ruled during the Great Fire of Rome and the start of the Jewish Revolt.

This man was accused of arson to clear land out for his Domus Aurea project, though he blamed that event on the Christians he persecuted.

Artabanus III supported an imposter of this man that was actually Terentius Maximus as a form of revenge against Emperor Titus.

This ruler deposed his client king, Cotys I of the Bosporan kingdom, in favor of annexing the Crimean Peninsula.

Boudicca's Revolt occurred during the reign of this Julio-Claudian Roman emperor who built theDomus Aurea.

The word “grotesque” can be traced to Renaissance-era excavations of a lavish complex built by this emperor before his death in 68 CE. :Name this fifth Roman emperor who allegedly fiddled during the Great Fire of Rome.

This emperor’s general Suetonius Paulinus won the Battle of Watling Street over the Iceni.

This leader’s early policies, passed with the support of his advisor Sextus Afranius [af-RAH-nee-uss] Burrus, included banning capital punishment and allowing slaves to sue their masters.

His reign was marked by a rebellion of the Iceni, as well as an assassination plot that led to the suicide of Seneca the Younger.

This ruler had his wife, Fausta, killed by leaving her in an overheated bath.

The 11th ruler of this name cried “the city is fallen and I am still alive” before leading a suicidal charge during the fall of his capital.

This ruler won battles at the Hellespont and Chrysopolis to put down a revolt led by Licinius.

He was the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity. :Name this emperor who moved his empire to Byzantium, which he would later rename after himself.

This emperor defeated rivals Maxentius and Licinius to secure power. :Name this son of Saint Helena who issued the Edict of Milan, allowing for religious freedom.

For unknown reasons, this ruler executed his oldest son, the successful admiral Crispus, who earlier helped this man defeat the Cappadocian usurper Marcius Martinianus.

Burckhardt also wrote a book titled The Age of [this ruler]. Renaissance-era humanist Lorenzo Valla determined that a “Donation” named for this ruler was a forgery created by the papacy.

This ruler fled from the court of Galerius to join his father and was subsequently proclaimed augustus in Eboracum.

That son was later put to death, supposedly because of indiscretions involving this man’s wife, whom he left to die in an overheated bath.

This ruler exiled Athanasius of Alexandria for mistreating followers of Melitius of Lycopolis, whose authority was curtailed at an earlier meeting called for by this ruler.

This man wept after realizing he was too old to invade India.

This man’s first act as emperor was to annex the Nabataean Kingdom to create the province of Arabia Petraea.

This man succeeded Nerva. :Name this Roman emperor who conquered Dacia. He also constructed a large victory column which still stands in his forum.

This man corresponded with Pliny the Elder about the persecution of Christians, advising Pliny to keep putting Christians on trial but to not actively seek them out.

Identify these “Good Emperors,” :He reigned from AD 97-117, and was known for building his namesake market, forum and column. However, he is better known for military victories over Dacia, Arabia and Parthia.

This ruler justified war with Osroes I of Parthia after the ascension of Axidares as King of Armenia, and sent Lusius Quietus to suppress a Jewish uprising known as the Kitos War.

answer the following about a Roman Emperor:This Spanish emperor, the namesake of both a forum and an arch, led his armies to extend Rome’s borders to its farthest ever.

This emperor instituted civil reform in the provinces by creating the office of “corrector.” He formalized his predecessor’s social welfare program, the alimenta.

This man improved the condition of the poor by instituting the alimenta to provide for children and increased grain allowances as emperor.

Under this ruler, the Alcántara Bridge was constructed, and he instituted the alimenta system of welfare grain distribution.

A cult was created for his drowned lover Antinous, and he married Vibia Sabina at the behest of his predecessor’s wife Pompeia Plotina.

This man’s wife Vibia Sabina may have had an affair with his secretary, the historian Suetonius.

He made Marcius Turbo Praetorian Prefect and employed the frumentarii as secret police.

This emperor secured power concurrently with the mysterious death of Lusius Quietus and the not-so-mysterious executions of four powerful senators.

Apollodorus of Damascus was supposedly killed for criticizing the design of the Temple of Venus and Roma that this emperor built where Nero's Domus Aurea once stood.

This third of the Five Good Emperors quashed the Bar Kokhba Revolt. He deified his lover Antinoüs by placing statues of him throughout the empire, including a famous one at a namesake villa in Tivoli.

This Spanish-born Roman emperor, who commissioned a wall on the border with the Picts in 122 AD, advocated the Antinous cult.

Unlike his predecessor, this ruler recognized the Parthian king Osroes I, and while he traveled abroad, this emperor employed the frumentarii and Marcius Turbo to prevent any coups.

This emperor attempted to build a temple of Jupiter on the site of the Temple of Solomon and rebuilt the Pantheon. :Name this 2nd century emperor who built a wall across Northern England.

This emperor, who ordered the founding of Aelia Capitolina, was buried in the modern-day Castel Sant’Angelo.

This man was stabbed to death after he had used the nickname "Priapus" to mock Cassius Chaerea.

This man was assassinated by Cassius Chaeraea after attempting to permanently move to Alexandria.

This man supposedly diverted an invasion of Britannia to have his army collect seashells along the English Channel.

This man’s successor executed Cassius Chaerea who had successfully assassinated this man.

This man infuriated a subordinate with a genitalia wound by forcing him to use insulting watchwords such as “Priapus.” While entertaining Ptolemy of Mauretania, he executed him and annexed his kingdom.

The ascension of Claudius occurred after the assassination of this famously debauched emperor, who supposedly once tried to name his horse a consul.

This emperor, who built an enormous floating palace on Lake Nemi, declared war on the god of the sea after his failed conquest of Britain.

A purple cloak may have caused this ruler to have Ptolemy of Mauretania executed, after which annexed his territory.

This emperor established the new 15th and 22nd legions or Primigeniae [[PREE-mee- GEN-ee-"eye"]] and ordered the construction of a new lighthouse at Boulougne [[boo-LOAN]] as part of a campaign he designed after receiving the fugitive Adminius.

This other Roman emperor ordered a survey for the construction of the Corinth Canal, but Egyptian engineers mistakenly measured the Saronic Gulf as higher than the Corinthian.

established the Tetrachy and led the last persecution of Christians?

This ruler rose to his highest position after Carus was struck by lightning.

Answer these questions about inflation in European history, .This Roman Emperor issued the “Edict on Maximum Prices” to try and curb inflation. He also tried to stabilize the empire by partitioning it amongst the Tetrarchy and persecuting Christians.

This ruler reformed his empire by grouping new, smaller provinces into a system of twelve dioceses.

Name these Roman emperors, .This emperor retired to his palace in Croatia in 305. He is best known for creating the tetrarchy and for a persecution of Christians.

This leader instituted new taxes on farmable land and individuals called the jugum and the capitatio, and received gifts from the Sassanid king Bahram II.

This man, who declared a price ceiling in the Edict of Maximum Prices, created a new ruling system after the Crisis of the Third Century before eventually retiring to his palace in Split to grow cabbage.

This man put down the rebellion of Lucius Domitius Domitianus in Egypt and gave a gold stipend to Nobatia [[no-BAH-tyah]] and the Blemmyes [[BLEM-yehs]].

This ruler built a series of forts called the Ripa Sarmatica along the Danube for a man who defeated the Persians at the Battle of Satala.

Romanus of Caesaria, bishop Anthimus, and Peter Cubicularius [[kyoo-bih-kyoo-LAH-ree-us]] were executed by this man during his persecution of Christians.

As a senator, this man advocated the admittance of Gallic senators in a speech preserved on the Lyon Tablet.

When a killer whale became trapped in the harbor at Ostia, this man ordered it to be covered in nets so he could battle it.

Urgulanilla’s (UR-goo-la-nill-uh) granddaughter Plautia was this emperor’s first wife.

A prophetess tells this historical figure that he will be able to speak clearly in 1900 years; that occurs in a novel in which this figure catches a wounded wolf cub that is dropped from the sky by two feuding eagles.

A Praetorian Guard named Gratus may have declared this man ruler after his predecessor was killed by Cassius Chaerea.

This husband of Messalina was served by the freedman Narcissus and was tutored by the historian Livy.

This person affirmed the rights of Jews in the Letter to the Alexandrians.

Was the namesake of a book by English author Robert Graves?

This person built the “Portus” north of Ostia.

An aqueduct that this ruler finished brought water from the Caeruleus (chai-RULE-ee-us) spring. :Name this emperor who also built the Anio Novus aqueduct as a part of his public works campaign. This emperor ordered the draining of the Fucine lake in order to increase the amount of arable land for Rome.

This man’s tutors included the Homeric scholar Alexander of Cotiaeum and the orator Fronto.

This emperor’s reign saw a Parthian invasion of Syria that caused a plague spread by returning troops.

One general who served this ruler in that conflict, Gaius Avidus Cassius, later rebelled against him after hearing false rumors of his death.

This emperor’s tutors included Herodes Atticus and Fronto, and the legions from this man’s campaigns in the east brought back the Antonine Plague.

This commander of the Thundering Legion was allegedly saved from defeat at the hands of Quadi by a miraculous rainstorm.

This student of the tutor Fronto married his cousin Faustina the Younger and fought the Marcomannic Wars.

When this man’s son vomited his poison, his assassins hired the wrestler Narcissus to strangle him in the bath, leading to the ascent of Pertinax.

The Antonine Wall was built 100 miles north of Hadrian’s Wall, but it was abandoned by this last of the Five Good Emperors in 164 AD.

The Edict of Caracalla granted Roman citizenship to slaves in the empire and gave this man’s name to all free men.

While on deployment, James Mattis was known to carry a copy of this man’s most famous work.

His invasion of Armenia allowed for the return of the Roman standards lost at Carrhae.

identify these key figures from the first six books of Tacitus’ Annals.Tacitus gives the following assessment of this emperor: “With his mother alive, he was still an amalgam of good and evil; so long as he loved, or feared, Sejanus, he was loathed for his cruelty, but his lust was veiled.”

This man purportedly had people dress up as Pans and nymphs to solicit passersby in a forest which locals termed the “old goat’s garden.” To make sure he was dead, this man was smothered to death under a heap of clothes by the prefect Macro.

This leader was asked, “How long will you allow the state to [remain] without a head?” when, according to Tacitus, his faux-humility almost led him to accidentally decline the job of emperor.

Name some Roman emperors of the first century CE, .His second wife was the daughter of Augustus, Julia Caesaris, and he went into exile on Rhodes after the marriage blew up. The father of Drusus, he also thwarted Sejanus’s plot in 31 CE.

His father of the same name fought in the civil war against his predecessor, but it was his mother, Livia Drusilla, that secured his rise to power. :Name this stepson of Augustus who would succeed him as Roman emperor.

This man said, “I have not yet made my peace with him,” when asked why he refused to execute his ex-wife’s second husband, Gaius Asinius Gallus.

This emperor’s nephew Germanicus may have been poisoned by Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso. :Name this Julio-Claudian emperor who succeeded his adopted father Augustus and ruled until 37 CE.

This man made Naevius Sutorius Macro the head of the Praetorian Guard. :Name this Roman Emperor, who created a vacancy when he executed his previous Praetorian Commander, Sejanus.

Tacitus relates how the delatores were particularly rampant during the reign of Sejanus, the “imperial aide” and de facto ruler of the empire while this emperor was living on Capri.

The Praetorian guard was disbanded by this emperor in favor of the Pannonian legions.

This man’s sons were Geta and Caracalla. :Name this man from Leptis Magna who became emperor after marching on Rome, ostensibly to avenge the murder of Pertinax.

This man ordered that Hannibal’s tomb be covered with fine marble shortly after his general Publius Cornelius conquered the Cilician pass.

With the help of Quintus Anicius Faustus, this ruler expanded the Limes Tripolitanus to protect against attacking nomads.

This man advised his sons to “be harmonious, enrich the soldiers, and scorn all other men”on his deathbed.

Upon taking power, this man discharged the Praetorian Guard and replaced them with his own legions.

This emperor died in Eboracum while campaigning in Scotland.

Herodian denounced this man’s nearly doubling of a soldier's pay as pandering to the army, a view which is reinforced by the spread of the title “Mother of the Camps” for his wife and his lifting of a two-century ban on active soldiers getting married.

Dio Cassius criticized this man’s policy of expanding the army and offering them better pay, and after defeating Pescennius Niger and Clodius Albinus, this man became sole survivor after the Year of the Five Emperors.

Four years after becoming emperor, in part by claiming descent from Nerva, he repelled a Parthian invasion and annexed Mesopotamia, while he was advised on legal matters by the jurists Ulpian amd Papinian.

Before being called back by this emperor to fight in the Dacian [[dah-KEE-ehn]] war, the governor Gnaeus Julius Agricola led a failed conquest of Caledonia after conquering modern Wales.

In his Epigrams, the writer Martial records how this man banned male castration despite having the eunuch Earinus as a lover.

The courtier Parthinus likely led the 96 AD plot to assassinate this emperor, who was succeeded by the elder statesman Nerva.

Unpopular with the aristocracy for such extravagances as demanding to be called dominus et deus, this emperor commanded the executions of his relatives Flavius Sabinus and Flavius Clemens and was opposed in the Senate by a coalition headed by the son of a man executed by Vespasian, Helvidius Priscus.

This ruler aborted his attempt to use the campaign of his brother-in-law Petilius Cerialis in the Rhineland for his own triumph; instead his first triumph was awarded for subduing the Chatti in Gaul, a victory which some called a sham.

This man took power upon the death of Titus in 81 CE and infuriated traditionalists by taking the title of "master and god." :Name this emperor, who instituted a reign of terror against dissenting Senators in the years prior to his 96 death.

Other than the Battle of Mons Graupius under his general Agricola, this man's wars were mainly defensive, and he began the construction of the Limes Germanicus and lost the first battle of Tapae to the Dacian king Decebalus.

This man sent an army led by Cornelius Fuscus, and that force lost the first battle of Tapae against the Dacians, before a temporary peace was concluded with Decebalus.

Suetonius reports that he was extremely sensitive about his baldness and wrote a work titled "On the Care of Hair," and his architect Rabirus built the Domus Augustana on the Palatine hill.

The first emperor since Claudius to campaign in person, this emperor took for himself the title of “Germanicus” after defeating the Chatti and was largely responsible for the construction of the Rhine-Danube fortifications.

This general allied with Khan Tervel of Bulgaria to defeat the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, during which he deposed Theodosius III to conclude the Twenty Years’ Anarchy.

According to Theophanes (thee-AH-fuh-neez) the Confessor, this man’s predecessor hid in the forests near Adramyttium to avoid being proclaimed emperor.

This ruler's ascension to the throne ended a period of turmoil that saw the reign of Philippikos Bardanes and the second reign of Justinian II, called the Twenty Years' Anarchy.

After the ruler who made this man the commander of the Anatolikon was overthrown, he pretended to go over to the Arabs and forced Theodosius III from the throne.

This man’s son defecated in the font when he was baptised, which led Germanus to predict that he would be evil in later life.

The historian who chronicled the rule of this man continued the work of his friend George Syncellus and was named Theophanes the Confessor.

When this man died, his son-in-law Artabasdus seized the throne, but Artabasdus was blinded after this man’s son took the throne.

One of this man’s predecessors attempted to eliminate him by sending him on a suicide mission against the Alans.

This ruler issued the Ecloga code and entrusted his old co-conspirator Artavasdos with many high positions.

This man's son, nicknamed Copronymus, later defeated Artabasdos in a struggle for the throne.

Name these Roman Emperors .This son of Marcus Aurelius, who believed he was Hercules, was strangled to death by an athlete in a Roman bath and succeeded by Pertinax.

This man added the title Britannicus to his name after one of his governors, Ulpius Marcellus, reestablished Roman control of the Antonine Wall.

Under the influence of his concubine Marcia, he eased persecution of Christians.

Tigidius Perennis may have been implicated in a plot against this emperor by the freedman Cleander.

This emperor was the first to be “born in the purple,” ending a period of adoptive-emperors.

This man placed a likeness of his own head onto the Colossus of Nero and declared that he was the “only left handed fighter to conquer twelve times one thousand men.” Twenty-five consuls were appointed in a single year after this man’s advisor Cleander sold public offices.

This emperor was portrayed as Hercules wearing the pelt of the Nemean lion in that aforementioned bust, in which his facial features and hair resemble his father.

This man gave Tigidius Perennis much of the responsibility of running his empire before he executed him in favor of Cleander.

On some of this man’s inscriptions, he reversed the order of the phrase “Senatus Populusque Romanus,” to “Populus Senatusque Romanus” to annoy the Senate.

He died when Narcissus strangled him in a bath after he vomited up poison given to him by his mistress Marcia.

Another ruler of this name defeated usurper Magnus Maximus at the battle of the Save and appointed Arbogast as magister militum.

This emperor’s Edict of Thessalonica made Nicene Christianity the empire’s official religion. name this emperor who was the last to rule over a unified Roman empire.

During the reign of this emperor, a chariot racer’s attempt to rape a cup bearer led to the lynching of the Gothic general Butheric .

A law code titled after an emperor of this name was created by a commission co-established by Valentinian the Third, and that emperor of this name gave his name to a set of walls west of the original Constantinian Wall.

This man secured his reign when a divine wind reversed the direction of pagan arrows during the Battle of the Frigidus.

Another ruler of this name built a namesake system of double walls surrounding his capital.

Another emperor by this name bribed troops who attacked him from the rear in the Alps into joining him instead; that, as well as assistance from the “Bora” wind, occurred while he was fighting Arbogast and Eugenius in the Battle of the Frigid River.

This man accompanied his father to put down the Great Conspiracy, and was the last emperor of both Eastern and Western Rome. :Name this Roman emperor who established Nicene Christianity as the state religion of Rome and summoned the Council of Constantinople.

The second emperor of this name was basically a non-entity, and the Empire was basically run by people including his sister Pulcheria, the prefect Anthemius and the eunuch Chrysaphius during his reign which started in 408 and included the Council of Ephesus.

In the last years of his reign he put down the usurper Eugenius defeating him at the River Frigidus while earlier he had defeated the usurper Magnus Maximus.

This person assembled the Varangian Guard. :Name this Byzantine ruler, who barely escaped defeat at the hands of the tsar Samuel at the Gates of Trajan before later winning the Battle of Kleidion and blinding thousands of his enemies.

Catherine Holmes wrote a book about "[this man] and the Governance of Empire." Because they lacked local political loyalties, a unit created by this man was composed of warriors from Scandinavia.

This man came to power by accusing his uncle of the same name, who had the surname Lekapenos, of sympathizing of Bardas Phokas, and he signed a truce with the Fatimids.

David III Bagrat reinforced a rebellion against this man's rule perpetrated by the general Bardas Phokas [[FOH-kas]].

This "purple-born" emperor likely had his co-ruler, John, poisoned upon his return from a campaign against the Abbasids.

This man imposed the “mutual guarantee” tax forcing the elite dynatoi classes to pay the taxes of their poorer neighbors.

This man gave his sister Anna in marriage to Vladimir I in exchange for the Chersonesos military base in the Crimea.

This leader founded the Varangian Guard after marrying his sister Anna to a foreign leader.

This man was ambushed at the Gates of Trajan after successfully relieving Sofia from siege.

This man signed a peace treaty with the Fatimid Caliphate in the year 1000.

This man's daughter, the princess Anna, wrote a history of his reign. :Name this emperor who fought against Robert Guiscard and the Normans at the Battle of Dyrrachium. He also sent ambassadors to meet with Pope Urban II at the Council of Piacenza.

This man defeated and blinded Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder, but married his daughter to Nikephoros’s son of the same name.

This ruler put down a Pecheneg siege of his city before fighting a war against the Seljuks.

He used the pronoia system to bankroll a military reform that replaced most of the tagma except the Varangian Guard and revamped the aristocracy by creating new court titles for men like Nikephoros Bryennios, this man's son-in-law and a major historical source for his reign.

This ruler once allied himself with the Cumans to defeat the Pechenegs at the Battle of Levounion. :Name that Byzantine ruler whose plea for mercenaries was transformed into a passagium generale by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont. The history of his rule was preserved by his daughter Anna.

A history of this ruler’s reign that opens by quoting Sophocles claims he got stabbed in the buttocks while fighting nomads who later helped him win the Battle of Levounion .

This man’s rise to power was arguably helped by the political chaos that ensued following Romanos’ overthrow in the aftermath of Manzikert. This man brought the Komnenos Dynasty to power in 1081 and began their namesake restoration.

Anna Comnena was the daughter of this great Byzantine emperor, whose deeds she recounted in a namesake treatise. He launched a night attack at Kalavrye to defeat the upstart Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder.

This Byzantine Emperor asked the Pope for military assistance and got the First Crusade. His son John and grandson Manuel oversaw a slight increase in Byzantine military power.

This ruler's domestic policies included the expansion of the pronoia system while his foreign policy achievements included a negotiation of a truce with Sulayman ibn Qutalmish of Konya.