More Notes on Rome
- After Caesars death there was split power between Octavian/Augustus, Mark Antony, and Lepidus

- Soon the three began fighting over the power and Octavian was able to defeat both of them in 31 B.C.

- He then managed to turn military dictatorship into a permanent monarchy

- Augustus's power kept many features of the roman republic and allowed subject peoples a good deal of self-rule. He also brought Rome's expansion of their empire to a halt

- This led to 200 years of stability that scholars call Roman Peace (Pax Romana)

- When Augustus gained power he killed many of the senators and replaced them with his friends and family, the assembly was completely destroyed and the common people no longer had a say. But this was ok with the citizens because they trusted Augustus

- Augustus made people worship him as a god and made them believe that he actually cam from the gods

- Augustus made many changes to Rome, first he brought the system of government appointments under his
personal control, He made the army more loyal and reliable by only having volunteers serve in the army for a period of 25 years

- After stopping the expansion of Rome Augustus had his army stationed in permanent camps instead of allowing them to fight in different countries

- Augustus wanted a loyal leader to take over when he died like what Caesar did to him, but he didn't have a son, so he adopted a son named Tiberius who he wanted to take over after he died and he did take over

- This led to a system that kept the roman government in stable monarchy for 200 years (Pax Romana)

- The power was handed down through son to son, but most of the emperors didn't have a son so they would adopt the boy who they wanted to take over power