Assassination and Another Caesar:

-Romans loved what Caesar was doing

-the senate were the people who didnt appreciate it 

-Caesar became the dictator for life

-he established a religious cult in his honor and wearing the purple robe of the ancient Roman Kings 

-the senators felt he was becoming a tyrant

-March 15 (44 B.C) Caesar came to the senate house unarmed, and unguarded

-the senators struck him with a dagger

-this did not help anything because a civil war broke out because of it

-Mark Anthony- once commander under Caesar

-joined with Octavian and Marcus Lepidus 

-tried to "restore the republic" 

LO1 The Roman Peace 

      The Rule of the Emperors

-after Ocatvians triumph, the senate conferred to him a new title

-Augustus ("Revered One") 

-he intended to stay in power and reform gov.

--restoring the republic

Princeps- a traditional name for prominent leaders who were considered indispensable to the Republic 

                           -Augustus referred to himself as this 

the job he held the longest was that of tribune of the people

-Senate named him commander in chief of armed forces

-he replaced some of the senate with his friends

-the people's assembly lost what remained of their power to elect magistrates
-they trusted Augustus as the had trusted Caesar
 -to reform the government Augustus was careful not to bring back the "Mixed government"
-he followed the dictators even more arrogant- seeming example of accepting religious worship of himself
-after he won supreme power, people were building shrines in honor oh him
-worshiped him as a God- sent human being
-when he died the senate declared him to be a Divine Human Being like Julius Caesar
-he acquired title of Father of the Fatherland
-he passed laws against adultery by woman
-married to Livia
-both Agustus and Livia got divorced to marry one another
-never had children
-Augustus began a whole series of large-scale reforms
         1. he brought the sstem of government appointments under his personal control
         2. Augustus showed respect for local institutions and encouraged provincial leaders to fufill their responsibilities
         3. recognized the army to ensure the loyalty of the rank-and- file soldiers
-By the end of his rule he made sure all the soldiers were volunteers serving for fixed terms of 25 years in permanent units
-in this way he and his successors broke with the Roman tradition of citizen soldiers to create the world's first professional standing army
- he kept the legion- sized Praetorian gaurd in Rome to back up his power at the empires center
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