OCR Ancient History Roman period study (Julio-Claudians) overview quiz quiz

He 'restored the Republic' while keeping a large provincial command over the armies

He openly took the title of king and ruled Rome as an undisguised monarch

He abolished the Senate entirely and governed alone through his own appointed officials

He personally led the legions in the conquest of Britain across the Channel

The permanent office of dictator for life

Tribunician power and a superior imperium

The censorship and control of the citizen rolls

Outright kingship over the Roman state

Trials of corrupt provincial governors for extortion and misrule in office

Military tribunals set up to judge mutinous soldiers in the frontier legions

Treason trials used against senators for offending the emperor's majesty

Special trials of the Praetorian Guard for failing in their duty to the emperor

Ordinary consul

Imperial governor of Egypt

Pontifex maximus, the chief priest

Praetorian prefect

The Praetorian Guard found and proclaimed him after murdering Gaius, paying him a donative

He won a long and bloody civil war against the rival armies of the provinces

He was lawfully and freely elected to the imperial position by a unanimous vote of the Senate

He peacefully inherited the throne directly from his own father by hereditary right

The annexation of the kingdom of Egypt

The conquest of Britain

The final pacification of Gaul

The conquest of Dacia beyond the Danube

His tutor Seneca

The prefect Burrus

His mother Agrippina

His stepbrother Britannicus

The Senate

The Praetorian Guard

The Jews

The Christians

That an emperor could be made outside Rome by the provincial armies

That it was the Senate alone in Rome that truly chose each new emperor

That the imperial freedmen secretly ruled the whole empire from behind the throne

That the reigning emperor was in truth a living god to be worshipped in Rome

Because it was written down by much later historians long after the death of Augustus himself

Because it is Augustus's own self-presentation, omitting the civil wars and proscriptions

Because it survives only in a Greek translation and never in the original Latin text

Because it was forged by his enemies in the Senate to blacken his lasting reputation