HIST 1001 Study Guide - Imperium, Gladiator, Maius
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The whole republican structure remained but eventually all power went to the emperor. Historians don"t know date of empire but we will date it. He was the grand nephew of julius caesar. When julius was murdered, augustus was: julius was murdered by the senate with brutus at the head of the attack. The most important person who emerged after caesar was marc antony who was his right hand man. He insisted after caesar died that his will be read in public. He didn"t know what was in the will but thought that there were two important provisions. 1. that he would be his successor and 2. that his considerable wealth would be distributed to his soldiers which antony would be in charge of distributing. What was in the will instead was caesar designating augustus as his adopted son and heir to 75% of. He filed a lawsuit to stop the adoption and to stop the money going to augustus.
