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History of Rome-After Ætas ab Brian

!Past a one Off: Epic: Ætas ab Brian

History of Rome (Aeab): 803(50)-852(99)

Not so Epic: On to the future!: 852(99)-891(138)

After Emperor Carico’s death in 803 AVC (50CE) his successor, Vaspasianvs Carico assumed a peaceful and quiet rule. Plans had been made by Carico to invade Britannia but Vespasianvs’ already dim interest in the campaign was halted indefinitely when a small revolt in Ivdea occurred in 819 AVC (66CE). It was speculated that had Carico not made his revisions to the governing systems, there would have been far more people disgruntled enough to join in. The revolt was also made quick work of by fastly deployed Legions by rail and by primitive bombus alesalitis (bombers). Another, larger general revolt in Gallia 823 AUC (70CE) was also put down, although more costly and lengthy. The use of these bomber aircraft, first used by Carico in Aegyptian occupied Greece were indespensible, though the passenger aerocraft fell into disuse, its design coming from Carico himself and they being ahead of their time. The old aerocraft simply could not be competently maintained. The current bombus alesalitis with their 2 propellers were powered by twisted and cranked sinues, allowing up to 20 minutes of flight. Their rickedly wood and fabric construction made them very fragile but in the air, nearly invincible against a few arrows (since at several hundred metres, arrows and rocks were all that could get them), as long as they missed the pilot.

By the end of Vespasianus’ rule 832(79), bombus alesalitis were supported with some iron supports and had 6 propellers, carrying 3 people. Each propeller was unsynchronized so that only one stopped at a time. One person ran between the 6, re-cranking each, giving the bomber a flight time of over an hour and a half. Another was a pilot, the other released the bombs and sometimes helped the cranker. Airstrips were built near many guarisons, most having at leat 2 bombus alesalitis.

Vapasianvs also created a national school for scribes, each major city had one, the costs were usually reasonable, and each school was standardized to the same criterion. This Vaspasianvs Imperial School would raise the Empire’s overall literacy rate from 14 to 32%. This education of the masses would put Rome on the path of survival in the future.

Vaspasianus’ son Titvs tooks over at his death in 832(79) and also ruled pretty well. Vesuvivs erupted and Rome caught fire that same year. He helped the refugees get back to normal. Worrying about future poor after his death and about how unlikely it would be other emperors would consider helping the masses, Titvs formed the Imperial Welfare System. Titvs died very questionably in 834(81)

Domitian succeeded his brother and was an uninspired ruler. He managed to rebuild Rome from the fire but no other cities, he also didn’t know much about economics and the economy went into recession. To try and better his image, he formed the Capitoline Games in 839(86). These were held in a different province every 4 years. They included many sports similar to the ancient Greek Olympic games of a footrace, wrestling and javelin. The Capitoline Games also had horse races, musicals, swimming, and weight lifting; gladiators were the highlight. All were challenging competitions. This was the end of Domitian's favorable attributes. He proved to be cruel and invictive. He killed a lot of Jews and several senators. The praetorian guard saw his reign deteriorating, and for the good of the empire, Domitian was killed in 844(91). The senators themselves would have done it in less than 4 years left to themselves.

Nerva of the Senate was given the Emperorcy. He was 61 years old, the oldest emperor at the start yet. He did a good job a fixing Domitian's errors, releasing falsely accused traitors, and readmitted wrongly exiled people. He was lucky that the Praetorians had lost their temper with Domitian so quickly, otherwise, they probably would have turned against Nerva. He had no kids but adopted Traianvs. It was amiable he did so much in just 8 years, he had a good public image. He died of chronic fevers in 852(99). Had his rule been tumultuous, he probably would have died earlier.

Taianvs, unlike his 4 predecessors, was a super military guy. He also continued repairing Domitian’s damaging rule.

!Past a one Off: Epic: Ætas ab Brian

History of Rome (Aeab): 803(50)-852(99)

Not so Epic: On to the future!: 852(99)-891(138)

History of Rome-After Ætas ab Brian