In Class 5-16-11

• Augustus died at age 76 in A.D. 14
• After he died, power was handed to Tiberius
• Tiberius said that the Senate was "men fit to be slaves"
• Tiberius and Germanicus were allies 
• After years, Tiberius became so paranoid that Germanicus was going to succeed, so he had him killed
• Tiberius was 77 years old when he died in A.D. 37 
• Caligula was Germanicus' son and Tiberius' adopted grandson
• Being the Tiberius' adopted grandson, he was next in line to be emperor 
• He started off good as emperor, giving the military bonuses, and made government spending a public thing
• After a while, he started fighting with the Senate
• Claimed that he was a God
• Had statues of himself posted all over the place, including in a Jewish temple
• Putting a statue in a Jewish temple was wrong because he was basically making fun of the Jews
• He was assassinated by his own aids in A.D. 41 at age 28
• After the assassination, Claudius was next in line
• He had birth defects
• People criticized him when he was a child
• After people found out that he was the last person in line after Caligula, they became a lot nicer then them
• He was expected to be a horrible leader
• Instead, he did things that Ceasear  couldn't
• He took over Britain
• Renovated the Circus Maximus 
• He had a bad wife who cheated on him all the time
• She plotted to take power from Claudius, and give it to her other lover
• Before this went through, Claudius had Messalina and her lover killed
• In 66 A.D. a group of Jews called the Zealots tried to rebel
• Roman troops shot their rebellion down and burnt down the temple
• Everything in the temple burned except for one wall
• The Western Wall is the one wall that didn't burn and it is the holiest of all Jewish shrines 
• Half a million Jews died in the rebellion
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