1 Jan 197 Jahr - Syrian

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193 Rome's emperor, Commodus, is a disappointment. Commodus is assassinated.

197 Rule in the Roman Empire has passed to another soldier: to Lucius Septimius Severus – the first emperor who is not distinctly of Roman origin. He is Syrian. He believes in terror rather than conciliation. He has sixty senators arrested and thirty executed for having sided with his rival. He will expel Roman aristocrats from positions of authority in and outside the army. power. During the rule of his family, the Syrian sun god, Sol Invictus, will become an official god of the empire. Rome is being swallowed by its empire.

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