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47 BCE - Julius Caesar was appointed dictator for 10 years. This changed the economy because he changed the whole way the government worked and he included new reforms.
2nd Century CE
165 - 167 AD - The Antonine Plague struck Rome causing 2,000 deaths a day and killed at least 1/3 of Romes population. This caused Rome to use more spending in helping cure the plague and to take care of their population.
45 BCE - Julius Caesar was appointed dictator for life, rather than just 10 years. He became the first full-time dictator of Rome. This really changd the Republic into an empire and changed the economy because he had full control over Rome until he died.
14 AD- Death of Emperor Augustus Caesar. This affected the economy because he is the one who started the Pax Romana.
32-36 AD- Estimated date of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ
44 BC- Caesar is murdered on March 15. This affects the economy greatly because many poor people were helped by him by his reforms.
5 BC - Jesus was estimated to be born around this time
3rd Century CE
238 CE - In this year there were 6 emperors. The large amount of emperors during this period created extreme instability. A few of the emperors were murder, one of them hanged himself, and a few of them were killed in battle. This also created an economy that shifted its system many times with the many new leaders.
197 BCE - The second Macedonian war ends with the defeat of Philip V. This affects the economy because Rome gained more land and more slaves which made them more money
253-259 CE - In these 6 years the Persian war began to flare up again, with the many Persian invasions costing the Romans heavily on an economic level.
280 BC - Rome issued the first, and largest, Bronze coins. These coins circulated through the many trade routes Rome used at the time
191 BCE - Rome conquers more of what is known today as France, funneling more money into Rome from the new markets in semi-barbaric provinces.
202 BC - Rome takes over Carthage, a major city in Northern Africa. Conquering this city gave them essentially complete trading rule over the Mediterranean
For hundreds of years, Rome had been a prosperous empire, although as Rome began to decline, the various trading networks began to falter. At this time, the Roman government began to use bread and circuses as well as other methods in order to keep the Roman people and the outside world believing that the people of Rome were wealthy. These methods worked for only so long as Rome began to be taken over by barbarians and had a hard time keeping their land and money.
4th Century CE
5th Century CE
301 CE -Diocletian puts out the maximum price edict, this fixed maximum prices for practically all articles and services.
Summary - This time began the rise of Rome. Rome started off being a small city state in Central Italy, but later grew in strength and power/ It took over all of the Italian Peninsula, and parts of Europe and Northern Africa. They took advantage of their location in the middle of the Mediterranean sea to control trade and strike militarily
450 BC - The Plebeians (second highest economic class) began to gain more rights, and had full force of law, although the Senate could veto the laws submitted by them
326 CE- Constantine chooses Byzantium as the new capital and renames it Constantinople. This showed how Constantine wanted to be part of the wealthier side of Rome and this affected the western economy greatly.
509 - Rome began to use their location in the Mediterranean to trade with the empires and city-states around them
400 CE- Alaric and the Visigoths invade Italy, capturing much of the peninsula in the south. This lost trade through Italy.
508 - Rome established an economic hierarchy that went from the richest (Patricians) to the poorest (Slaves). Leaders at this time were selected from the Patrician class
445 BC - Your economic level in Roman society at this time was very important, and only until this time was marriage between Patricians and Plebeians legal. In 445 BC it was legalized