- Got stabbed to death by senate
- took over at the age of 18
- "The honored one"
- Brutus:
- one of his close friends
- stabbed him to death as well
- Et tu, Brute? Even you Brutus?
- thought to be his last words because Shakespeare wrote them
- Octavian (Caesar Augustus)
- AKA: Caesars grand-nephew
- began his rule at age 18
- became known as Caesar Augustus
- 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 supple, even a postal service
- Augustus dies at age 76 in A.D. 14, and passes power to Tiberius
from Jesus to Christianity:
- 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 them) in the empire, and reaching out to outsiders
- statements like "My kingdom is not of this world" made the Romans (and the jew) 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
- Paul is an instrument in telling the world about Jesus
- life, death, resurrection, and message
- He travels far and wide: Cyprus, Anatolia, Athens, Corinth, Macedonia, Rome, Jerusalem, and maybe even spain and britain
- he writes letters to many of those he spoke to- these epistles are a part of the New Testament
- if not for the efforts of Paul, it is likely that Jesus remains an obscure preacher, instead of the central figure of the worlds largest religion
honorific: to honor someone/ someone honorable
august: to be honored
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