Roman Empire

         Today in class we watched a movie called "The Roman Empire: In the First Century." We talked about Octavian aka. Augustus, who was a great and powerful ruler. When he ruled  for 40 years people liked him. Pax Romana is the time period when Augustus ruled Rome. In the movie it talked about how the areas surrounding Rome were considered part of Rome. This would explain why languages like Spanish, French etc. are so similar.         Augustus adopted a son named Tiberius. Tiberius was not Octavian's first choice as a new leader, but when Tiberius started to take over Rome, they started to see some problems. Tiberius was forced to marry Octavian's daughter, regardless of the fact that Tiberius was happily married. Dramaticus tried to fix the situation that Tiberius can't "connect with his people." Dramaticus had a wife and a son named Caligula "bootsie" Tiberius was paranoid that Dramaticus was going to take his rule so he had him killed.