World History › Section E · The ancient Mediterranean › Topic E.5
The age of Augustus
In three decades of civil war, ambitious generals destroyed the Roman Republic. Caesar's heir ended the wars and built a monarchy disguised as a restored republic, the principate, which gave the Mediterranean two centuries of relative peace but no reliable rule of succession.
In this topic
- Great men after Sulla
- The First Triumvirate
- Worked example: reading Caesar on Gaul
- Crossing the Rubicon
- Octavian, Antony and Actium
- The settlement of 27 BCE
- Worked example: reading the Res Gestae
- Army, frontiers and provinces
- Rome remade
- Succession and the Julio-Claudians
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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