Rome Movie Notes

Notes

• Octiavious was Juilus Ceasar's adopted grandson 
• He made 3 branches of govnerment of republic: the consul, senate, and assembly
• Julius Ceasar had lots of power, was nice to the people, but had enemies
• They didn't want one person to have that much power
• So Octiavian goes againist him, stabs him to death with the rest of the senate, later he changes his name to Augutus
• Rome controled almost the entire coast of the Mediterrtian in the begin of the first century, which needed a lot of soldiers
• Octiavian died of age at 75 ?
• *Tiberous, step son of Otiavian, took over after Octiavian passed away
• You had to be in the Roman League, if you were stationed far, you were gone for 30 to 40 years
• They said they weren't going to fight anymore
• *Germanmicus, is going to cover/take charge for Tiberious and calm down the people in the army
• Seligula (bootus, his son about 2 years old) was the 'mascot' for the League
• He saw the army's loyalty 
• Germanius was getting to much power, so Tiberious, had him killed, some say of posion
• People after work, would go to the baths
• The baths - a social place, excersing rooms, an eatting place, even had hairpluckers&messages for the rich&poor
• Romans cheirshed their afternoon time
• Singanious, a calvary fighter
• Germanious is killed, and Singanious takes his children and straves one and the other commites suicde, later dragged on the streets and thrown into the ocean
• Genmanious was struggled and thrown into a River
• Jesus was in Judea and baptised in the Jordan River
• Tried to help/appeal to the poor
• *The Romans put Jesus to death
• He goes to marketplace and flips the tables
• He causes people a lot of trouble
• He went around with no politcal views, no wealthy families/background, he just went around preaching to the poor, like many other people did
• Jesus was arrested and later restution
• They picked that type of death to send a message to others & it was public
• Tiberious was in charge at this time
• His followers believed Jesus rose from the dead and came back
• Paul preached more the Jesus, he traveled more, going all around the Roman empire
• Calugea's father's and brothers were killed, some say he suffered from a biopolar or lead posion, calling him crazy
• He was supposed to kill an animal instead he killed a priest for no reason 
• He had a statue of himself put in the main church/temple
• His own people killed him
• Cladius was disfirgued, he didn't walk or talk right - something happened when he was little, people laughed at him
• After Calugea was killed, Cladius was next in line and took over 
• He passed laws, raised women rights, and more
• He wanted to join Gauls, brits, and Spain into the Roman empire and share the wealth and power
• Messalia, his wife, had affairs with other men, once with a noblemen
• He had his men sent to killed her and the noblemen, her lover
• His men killed her in front of her mother
• He celebrated his wifes death with a dinner party