HIST 1012 Final: Roman History Exam 3 FINAL
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Succession plan- he was going to continue the process of adopting the (cid:498)best fit(cid:499), his first choice dies and antoninus pius becomes emperor, his successors come from. Was forced to adopt marcus aurelius and lucius verus (the son of the first choice) From gaul and his first thing to do was deified hadrian. He never left italy during his reign, thus it was peaceful. Starts off as a co-emperor with lucius verus. 167-175, 178-180- aurelius" gets the north (cid:523)german tribes(cid:524) 165 a major plague strikes in the east- this reaches rome and spreads to all of the provinces as well. 168- the plague drives the emperors out of their army camp. Dies in 180- didn"t adopt anyone to succeed him (cid:884)(cid:882)% of alexandria"s population is dead (cid:523)egypt(cid:524) 10% of the entire mediterranean population dies there was about 80 million dead. 169ce- marcus aurelius sells palace"s furnishing to raise money for war.
