HISTORY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION I
HISTORY 101
Topic Nine:  Imperial Rome

Syllabus and Study Guide

Requirement
Field Trip
Project
Library Assignment
Course Content
Museums
Other Resources
Hybrid Course

Identifications: Identify and discuss the importance of the following items.

Optimates, Gaius Sempronius Gracchus, Pompey, Actium, Ovid, Peter, Tiberius Gracchus, First Triumvirate, Lucretius, Nero, Jesus of Nazareth, Plutarch, Populares, Julius Caesar, Horace, mystery cults, Jugurtha, Marcus Aurelius, Spartacus, Cicero, Mark Anthony, pax Romana, Trajan, Gaius Marius, Octavian (Augustus), Tacitus, Virgil, Hadrian, bishops, publicans, Sulla, Second Triumvirate, Vespasian, Paul of Tarsus, Cleopatria VII, Suetonius

Essay

1.  Why was civil confict endemic in the Roman world before the pax Romana?  What mechanisms contributed to the reestablishment of order?
2.  August was concerned about the erosion of traditional Roman values and sought their restoration.  What are some of these values?  Was Augustus right in trying to reintroduce these values?

READING ASSIGNMENT