HIST 100 Lecture 3: HIST 100 - Lecture 3 Notes
17 Dec 2016
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The final stage in the transformation of the republic into a monarchy. Octavian centralized the power of the government to himself. Octavian ties the machinery of state to himself: machinery of state = the legislative. Founder of the julio-claudian dynasty, the first dynasty of the imperial era. Dynasties in order: julio-claudian dynasty, flavian dynasty, antonine dynasty (cid:494)era of the (cid:887) good emperors(cid:495) Crisis of the third century stress pressure crisis (over-extension) Crisis of the 3rd century (cid:494)precipitating event(cid:495) The process of the barbarization of the western roman empire: within this process: the germanic migration and the formation of the germanic. Increased pressure from the east (persia) and north (germanic tribes of rhine-danube border: distruption of trade > revenue decline > localization of provincial interests escalates. Severans respond to revenue decline by increasing taxes > realization of curiales (group that could not be taxed/patricians/wealthy) > provincial disconnection.
