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Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Caesar took over when Cassius and Brutus, the two conspirators had already fled the city. Became the protagonist of important reforms in the administrative, financial and military. Belongs to this time the division of 14 regions, the construction of the Forum of Augustus and the Basilica Julia, the Mausoleum and the Ara Pacis.
On the death of Augustus, he tried to assert the principle of inheritance of the imperial title, passing from hand to hand along the descendants of the Julio-Claudian family: Tiberius to Caligula, by Claudius to Nero, the last representative of the dynasty. During this period continues the monumental city, at least until the reign of Nero will not occur a terrible fire that razed almost to the ground. Taking advantage of the reconstruction, the emperor built the Domus Aurea, the huge villa, situated between the hills Coelian, Esquiline and Palatine. Nero stops after the succession of emperors from the Julio-Claudian family. Rise to power exponents of the Flavian family, whose representative is the first Vespasian. Follow Titus and Domitian. The period of the Flavian dynasty dates the construction of the Baths of Titus, Temple of Peace and the Stadium of Domitian, the space from which was derived the present Piazza Navona. Emperor Trajan should instead complete the Forum, the Trajan's Forum and Markets of Trajan, Hadrian, the Pantheon. The Flavian dynasty followed by the dynasty, with Septimus who gets the assignment of an absolute monarch, followed by Caracalla Baths author of the same name, evidence of the refined social and civil development of the city of Rome. His successors were Macrinus (head of the conspiracy that led to the death Caracalla in turn killed by a conspiracy of soldiers and senators), Elagabalus and Alexander Severus, the first emperor prepared to recognize the importance of Christian preaching. The first Roman emperor on the throne barbarous Maximin was elected by the soldiers of Germany, a sign that the growing importance of the Alps were soldiers in the ranks of the Roman armies. From the third century is established in fact a period of restlessness, with the Roman Empire from anarchy and military shaken by a rapid succession of emperors, proclaimed and killed by the military themselves. In this same period exacerbate the persecution of Christians. To restore the situation provident partially Diocletian, the most important of the emperors called the "Illyrian", transforming the state into an absolute monarchy and theocracy, breaking all links with the Senate and the people, and inaugurating the season of tetrarchy (Government 4), reserving for himself the defense of the eastern empire, and entrusting the defense of the Western Valerius Maximus, both assisted by lieutenants Galerius Maximian and Constantius. During tetrarchy tax laws were enacted very harsh and exorbitant taxes, trade and exacerbated further repression against the Christian worship. The tetrarchy Diocletian lasted for twenty years and then abdicated, together with Massimo. But that did not end with their system of government, continuing with other emperors, until the civil war between Constantine and Maxentius. The tetrarchy ended with the victory of Constantine. The clashes between the two opposing factions never completely subsided, and booting up periodically flowing in the allocation of power to a triumvirate of Pompey, his strong military power, Crassus, a representative of the aristocracy, and Caesar as the representative of the wing democratic. The triumvirate did not last long, because dell'Accesa rivalry between Caesar and Pompey, thanks to which the political struggle turned into social conflict, resolved by taking part of Caesar's power of tribune of the Pontificate of Massimo and Dictatorship in life. With Caesar attends eclipse the role of the Senate, and since the passing of the Republic to the Empire. The extensive reforms that he had in mind were never realized, because he died the victim of a conspiracy in 44 BC
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Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Caesar took over when Cassius and Brutus, the two conspirators had already fled the city. Became the protagonist of important reforms in the administrative, financial and military. Belongs to this time the division of 14 regions, the construction of the Forum of Augustus and the Basilica Julia, the Mausoleum and the Ara Pacis. On the death of Augustus, he tried to assert the principle of inheritance of the imperial title, passing from hand to hand along the descendants of the Julio-Claudian family: Tiberius to Caligula, by Claudius to Nero, the last representative of the dynasty. During this period continues the monumental city, at least until the reign of Nero will not occur a terrible fire that razed almost to the ground. Taking advantage of the reconstruction, the emperor built the Domus Aurea, the huge villa, situated between the hills Coelian, Esquiline and Palatine. Nero stops after the succession of emperors from the Julio-Claudian family. Rise to power exponents of the Flavian family, whose representative is the first Vespasian. Follow Titus and Domitian. The period of the Flavian dynasty dates the construction of the Baths of Titus, Temple of Peace and the Stadium of Domitian, the space from which was derived the present Piazza Navona. Emperor Trajan should instead complete the Forum, the Trajan's Forum and Markets of Trajan, Hadrian, the Pantheon. The Flavian dynasty followed by the dynasty, with Septimus who gets the assignment of an absolute monarch, followed by Caracalla Baths author of the same name, evidence of the refined social and civil development of the city of Rome. His successors were Macrinus (head of the conspiracy that led to the death Caracalla in turn killed by a conspiracy of soldiers and senators), Elagabalus and Alexander Severus, the first emperor prepared to recognize the importance of Christian preaching. The first Roman emperor on the throne barbarous Maximin was elected by the soldiers of Germany, a sign that the growing importance of the Alps were soldiers in the ranks of the Roman armies. From the third century is established in fact a period of restlessness, with the Roman Empire from anarchy and military shaken by a rapid succession of emperors, proclaimed and killed by the military themselves. In this same period exacerbate the persecution of Christians. To restore the situation provident partially Diocletian, the most important of the emperors called the "Illyrian", transforming the state into an absolute monarchy and theocracy, breaking all links with the Senate and the people, and inaugurating the season of tetrarchy (Government 4), reserving for himself the defense of the eastern empire, and entrusting the defense of the Western Valerius Maximus, both assisted by lieutenants Galerius Maximian and Constantius. During tetrarchy tax laws were enacted very harsh and exorbitant taxes, trade and exacerbated further repression against the Christian worship. The tetrarchy Diocletian lasted for twenty years and then abdicated, together with Massimo. But that did not end with their system of government, continuing with other emperors, until the civil war between Constantine and Maxentius. The tetrarchy ended with the victory of Constantine. The clashes between the two opposing factions never completely subsided, and booting up periodically flowing in the allocation of power to a triumvirate of Pompey, his strong military power, Crassus, a representative of the aristocracy, and Caesar as the representative of the wing democratic. The triumvirate did not last long, because dell'Accesa rivalry between Caesar and Pompey, thanks to which the political struggle turned into social conflict, resolved by taking part of Caesar's power of tribune of the Pontificate of Massimo and Dictatorship in life. With Caesar attends eclipse the role of the Senate, and since the passing of the Republic to the Empire. The extensive reforms that he had in mind were never realized, because he died the victim of a conspiracy in 44 BC
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