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The Roman historian Tacitus gives us an up-close look at the lives of many of the first century’s emperors in his various works.
So does Suetonius in his Lives of the Twelve Caesars.
Edward Gibbon first popularized the notion of the Pax Romana and the five Good Emperors in the first three chapters of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
The Age of Augustus
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

The Pax Romana – Quiz

After Augustus’s reorganization of the Roman social classes, one needed to own property worth at least 1,000,000 sesterces to qualify for the __________ class.
Following the “year of the four emperors,” ___________ established the Flavian dynasty.
Identify at least two of the “Good Emperors.”
In the year A.D. 9, the German leader ___________ defeated Roman legions and stopped Roman expansion into Germany.
List at least two of the titles given to Octavian after he established control of Rome.
List the four Julio-Claudian emperors who succeeded Augustus.
The _________ was the emperor’s personal bodyguard.

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