Aftermath N' Stuff

- Octavian takes over at 18 with his own triumvirate, with Mark Antony and Lepidus

- Octavian force Lepidus to retire

- Octavian and Mark become rivals

- Mark Antony partners with Cleopatra

- Octavian defeats them at the Battle of Actium

- Octavian is now the unchallenged ruler of Rome

- He gets the title "Augustus"

- He also gets the title "Imperator

- Now Rome is an empire

- Octavian rules for 40 years

- He began Pax Romana

- Pax Romana 27 BC to 180 AD

- Octavian set up a civil service to run the government 

- He died of natural causes

- after Octavians death power was passed down to emperors

- Tiberius ruled from 14 to 37 AD

- Great general bad emperor

- Caligula ruled from 37 to 41 AD

- He tried to re-establish the Republic

- Claudius ruled from 41 to 54 AD

- He suffered from many infirmities, but he ruled well and died by poisoning

- Nero ruled from 54 to 68 AD

- emphasized the arts, and hugely overspent, historians do not look kindly upon him