The Roman Empire pt. 2

• Caligula was Tiberius adopted grandson
• Starts off ok
• Grants bonus' to the army
• He took away charges of treason
• Instituted transparency
• In the first seven months of reign was "completely blissful"
• He starts fighting with the senate
• He was somewhat insane
• He claimed to be a god
• Put a statue of himself in the Jewish Tempe
• Assassination by his own aids, AD 41 (age 28)
• Claudius wasn’t the most inspiring
• Limp, slightly deaf, speech impediment
• His own family made fun of him
• Because he was the last male in the Caesar family line, he became emperor
• He had a terrible marriage
• His wife wasn’t always loyal
• She wanted to have Claudius killed so her lover could become emperor
• Christianity and Judaism - monotheistic
• Romans had many gods
• Sometimes emperor declared themselves as a god
• There was no separation of church and state
• In AD 66 the Zealots, a group of Jews, rebelled
• Romans burned down their temple except for one wall
• The wall is the holiest place in Jewish system
• 1/2 of a million Jews died
• Romans were harsh to those who didn’t worship the emperor
• The Christians were viewed as a cult
• Their religion was secretive
• They were targeted
• Because of that, it became popular