- Ides of March: Julius Caesar was stabbed to death 23 times by the senate.
- Octavian - AKA Caesar Augustus
- Augustus - the first emperor - getting it done
- begins the pax romana - a period of peace and prosperity
- built roads, aqueducts (brought water to the cities)
- set up civil service to take care of roads, the grain supply, even a postal service
- Augustus dies at age 76 in A.D. 14, and passes power to...
- Tiberius.
- but first, a word about Jesus. And Paul.
- Jesus was a Roman citizen and a practicing Jew
- At 30, he began his ministry (A.D. 31 - 33), preaching to the poor (and there were lots of 'em) in the empire, and reaching out to outsiders
- Statements like "My kingdom is not of this world" made the Romans (and the Jews) nervous, and they began to plan his execution
- the governor of the Roman province of Judaea, Pontius Pilate (prompted by Jewish high priests), sentences Jesus to death by crucifixion
That's how far we got in class.
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