96-98

Took care of orphans

First senator to be emperor

Created a wellfare system

*98-117

*born and raised in Spanin

*conquered Dacia

*died fighting Persians

*made Dacians slaves and replaced them with Roman colonists

*made coins to pay soldiers

*117-138

*hated Jews

*open homosexual

*Spaniard

*built Hadrian's wall in Britian 

*traveled all the time

*138-161

*really relgious (Pagan)

*was an adopted son of Hadrian

*thought the empire was two big for one ruler

*adopted two sons (Lucious Veeras and Marcus Aurelius)

*161-180

*philosopher by profession

*didn't want to be emperor

*good warrior

*encountered and rejected Christianity

*plague during rule

*Germans invaded during rule

*wrote medititations

*last "Good Emperor"

*69-79

*built Colosseum 

*"Abe Lincoln" of Rome

*Conquoered Britian 

*reformed government

*refilled treasury with tax increases

*starts Flavian Dynasty

*79-81

*Destroys Herrod's temple in Jerusalem

*lots of disastors during reign 

*Mt. Vesuvius errupted (Pompeii)

*burnt Rome (80)

*313-337

*312 Battle of Milvian Bridge (western part of empire)

*313 Edict of Molan made it illegal to go after Christians

*324 takes over east as well and moves to Byzantium (Constantinople)

*325 Council of Nicea

*Who was Jesus

*Arain-Jesus was a type of created god

*Trinitarian 

*Constantine declared Jesus was God (trinity)

*historian

*wrote "Histories" and "Annales"

*69-122

*wrote "Lives of the Caesars"

*gossip colom"

*pay soilder

*prapaganda 

*69-96

*Ostro Goths-Russia feirce warriors

*Visa Goths-Poland 

*Huns drove them to Rome

*378 the emperor  Valens  fights their rebellion at the battle of Adrianople, *lost invented stirrups for the saddles

*Theodoric king of Ostrogoths conquers Rome and ruled it

*Arian Christians

*Justinian (eastern emperor) fights the Gothic war 535-554 and exterminates Ostrogoths

*535-554

*Justinian of eastern Rome vs. Ostrogoths

*Ostrogoths exterminated

*Invaded France and England

*Took what would become Norway

*Visogothic king

*sacked Rome in 410

*Mayors of the palace under Merovingians

*de facto rulers

*eventually made the offical kings with Papal aid 751

*Islamic troops invaded France from the south an attempt to convert all Europe

*defeated by Charels Martell 

*732

*mayor of the palace from 714-741

* raised army and won the Battle of Tours

*481-511

*builds a Frankish empire

*496 became a Christian and converted his country

*this conversion lead to the over all Europian history to be Roman Catholic instead of Arian 

*links Pope and kings

*768-814

*843

*divided Charlemagne's empire into 3 parts

*ended cival war between his sons

*Vassal singed contracts with lords

*loyalty was to your lord not country

 *started in France

*strict laws written by Charlemagne in an attempt to regulate law

*written to Counts

*1206-1274

*first expert on Aristotle 

*871-899

*greaest Saxson king

*repelled Danish Vikings

*loved lituerature and art

*wanted to tax church

*1272-1307

*developed parliment 

*1154-1189

*saw himself as rightful heir to both French and English thrown

*started trail by jury

*1118-1170

*St. Thomas

*Archbishiop of Canterbury

*Was appointed by Henry II but chose to be faithful to Pope

*was murdered Dec. 29 1170

*1215

*king was under law just as everyone else

*tended to have one son
*some of the best kings

*smart men

*raised power from small regions to full country 

*939-996

*founder of Capetian dynasty

*1180-1223

*father of French monarchy

*demanded strict obedience from Vassals

*Took land of vassals he disliked

Philip IV

*1285-1314

*The fair

*Highly Immoral

*saw that Jews and Italians dominated banking and took their money and drove them out

*made income and personal property taxes

*call together France’s first parliament as advisers

*1226-1270

*St. Louis 

*ascetic in beliefs (punish flesh)

*shrewed politician but not a great warrior

*build great cathedrals

*attempted to increase his power by increasing money

*ruling over the law courts of the country

*made laws by his words only

*936-973

*ecclesiastical feudalism

*annointed by Pope as emperor of Rome

*Holy Roman Empire

*1547-1584

*Submission to Allah 

*Believe in Allah the one true God and that Muhammad is his supreme prophet

King of Danish vikings

Invaded France 

Almost took Paris

Was stopped when the gave him Normandy