Featured Article Quiz #169
Augustus
#1 Augustus was born as Gaius Octavius and became emperor, ruling from which years?
27 BC to AD 14
14 BC to AD 27
30 BC to AD 37
#2 Which change is described as beginning with Augustus’s reign?
The Pax Romana and the introduction of the principate
The end of the Senate’s public authority in government
The immediate abolition of professional armies in Rome
#3 After Julius Caesar was assassinated, what requirement caused Octavius to take Caesar’s name?
Caesar’s will named him the main heir and required him to take Caesar’s name
The Senate demanded he publicly renounce Caesar’s legacy before inheriting power
A new law required all heirs to keep their original birth names only