Antiquilties of the Jews means history of the Jews. Many people thin that Jews are very innocent but in the ancient times you would think differently. The Jews are the ones that crucified Jesus. They fougth against the Romans in Judea. Took them all out. The only time they were innocent I would say was the holocaust. In the holocaust the Nazis and Hitler treated the Jews badly.

Valeria Maximilla was the wife of Maxentius. Maxentius was the emperor of the west. Likr in the article it said that she was with him before the battle on the Milvian Bridge. There Maxentius was defeated by Constantine and drowned in the water. He died in the water because his plan was to drown Constantine by making the bridge fall but tat back fired. His army was wearing armor so they would sink right down. Maxentius died. Maximilla must of been really upset. They do not know how she died. So there is no exact proof of how she died?

Julia was the daughter of Gaius Julius Caesar. She was very headstrong. And at some point started dating Pompeii. Caesar took that as very useful. Since Pompeii, was dictator at the time he could offer him Julia for 10 legions. He did. Julia and Pompeii got married. Julia gave Pompeii a ring when they got married. Then they had a child. Giving birth to the child Julia died. So did the child obviously. That is sad for a woman to die like that. She did not even know it was coming.

Julius caesar was a great man. He went into the senate after disobeying Sulla. Back then you would be lucky to live if you disobeyed Sulla. He was good friends with Pompeii. Pompeii became dictator after that. They did not like the word king so they came up with dictator for a year.

Julius Caesar conquered Gaul. As Jordan said the senate were afraid if Caesar was going to get too much power. I understand why they were thinking that. Once you have a lot of powere you start abusing it. They should know that Caesar is not that kind of guy. Also, when they defeated Gaul the people that lived their came back and wanted revenge. They were running out of food so they had to do canabalism. Canabalism is when you eat people. They ate their familes. They felt like cowards so they decided to surrender. Caesar went back defeating goal .....kind of twice. :P

Octavian only became emperor because after Julius Caesar was assassinated he did not have time to change his will so everything went to Octavian. Instead of his son Caesarion. octavian and Antony were enemies. It was Octavian's idea to assasinate Caesar He was a coward. On the other hand he was a great emperor. The people of Rome loved him.

Suetonius was a very famous writer. He wrote a book called the Twelve Caesars. Suetonius is actually Mr. Santamaria's favorite Roman writer. The book of the Twelve Caesars is called that because after Caesar died they were all connected to him , it ended at some point. There is only 12.

Juvenal was a Roman poet. He basically was a comedian. Made fun of everything. Yo Momma jokes are nothing compared to the things he said to people. For example, he even talked badly about the Greeks!

Agrippina is a head strong women. She basically grew up with royalty, so she wanted her son Nero to be a part of that. Claudius who was emperor at the time did not date anymore ever since his wife cheated on him. So Agrippina sdeuced him so her son Nero can be emperor. But he had two children. Claudius became ill and ended up dying. Rumor has it that Agrippina poisioned him. As the eldest Nero became the emperor thanks to his mother Agrippina! ( Not a good way to get what you want you think?)

Agrippina died in a horrible way. She was paying more attention to her step-son Britanicus since Nero was acting out, so Nero got upset. She tried to kill her. The first way he tried to kill her was the she gave her a boat and then when she was on the boat the boat sank! She was so determined that she swam back to land. Nero was furious so when she was at her own she sent guards to go and kill her in any way possible. They were gonna cut her in many pieces but she said no and pointed to the place where Nero came from to signify what a mistake she made.

As I said before Agrippina grew up in royalty. So she wanted a piece of it as well. When she made Nero emperor she tried to get in the popularity too. For example, Nero AND Agrippina were on the coin. Nero did not like that she was taking over everything.

Almost everyone that was not Roman would be considered a Barbarian. Barbarians were brave men, fighters. They fought completely different from the Romans. Barbarians- All go on their own and indepentdently. Romans- Organized, working together and in a curtian position. Two kinds of Barbarian tribes are the Monguls and The Goths. The Goth at some point went into Rome and took over! :O

The goths were a barabarian tribe in Ancient Rome. You may have heard of the word Goths used in people and now you know where it came from. The leader of the Goths was Allaric. He and his tribe went to Rome and kind of took over at some point. That was the start of the fall of Rome.

What I ment by that was that Maxentius once had to fight against Constantine. His idea was to make the bridge fall when all of his army was on it. Pretty simple. But Maxentius ebded being the one falling into the water with his army. They were all wearing armor obviously so they could not get up. So they sink right down. Constantine won and Maxentius died. :l

Trajan decidied to make a new forum called Trajan's forum. Trajan had a lot of money. He wanted Appolodorus to do it. Appolodorus was a greek architect. During that time it was the greatest time to build. Appolodorus had to carve a hill in bricks for Trajan's new forum. 125 feet of elevation was chipped off. Att 112 AD Appolodorus finally finished Trajan's forum! To go to thr forum of Trajan would be a wonderful experience. In the forum there was a statue of Trajan. It was called Trajan's towe. It was 125 foot statue.Trajan's building was the largest building in Maseneca. In the forum there was a shopping mall that was three floors. There was a courthouse, a library,and had pools.