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  • Roman Empire

  • --- Trajan subdued a Judean revolt, then fell seriously ill, leaving Hadrian in command of the east.

  • ---On his death bed, Trajan adopts Hadrian and desinated him as his successor.

  • ---Emperor Trajan dies, leaving the Roman Empire at its maximal territorial extent.

  • --- Hadrian , who will reign until 138 , succeeds him.


  • --Hadrian, a Spaniard like Trajan, is an excellent officer who has had a brilliant career. He is well-cultured man, who as Emperor inaugurates a civil government, giving up the policy of conquest of his predecessor in order to consolidate the empire.

  • --- Hadrian returns large parts of Mesopotamia to the Parthia ns as part of a peace settlement.

  • ---Construction begins on the Pantheon in Rome .




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