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Augustus Caesar was an amazing Roman emperor that really made big changes for Rome and for the people. He was trusted and reliable and was able to see the wrong in all the categories. He was able to also ask for help such as the successors and military to restore what is best. His goal was to find peace and prosperity in Rome and with the help of his great uncle being a model for him he was able to accomplish what he couldn't.

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Augustus embarked on a path of major administrative changes in the spirit of his great uncle Julius Caesar. A lot of changes were made in finances as well as in the bureaucracy. A host of legal reforms were also introduced covering everything from Treason and bribery to social reforms.

He handled the economy at his reign very well. He was able to enhance risky choices in the spirit of how his great uncle used to rule and do what is best. The finances were a great pathway to allowing trade. He tries to stabilized cash flow but the efficiency of the exaction system was the only solution from creating this new order. However, his abilities to reform changed all of taxation of Rome. The tax was also levied on anything that was left by people at the death to anyone. (Milnor, 2005)

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Augustus formulated no schemes for visiting or Romanizing Britain. Instead, he left those decisions to his current successors at that time. (Feng, 2019, para 3) He systematized the defense of this frontier as far as he could, but left it to his successors to develop and perfect the system.

Augustus handled his foreign policies pretty well. The Atlantic was the main issue and he replenished it the best way he could in all areas. Augustus put both rivers under special government and solidifying what Rome already had than on gaining new lands. Overall, he went through big obstacles but he was able to talk to all areas and was able to rely on the client states of the east to act as territorial buffers and areas that could raise their own troops for defense.

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He reduced the number of senators, reorganized systems of taxation and administration and established a permanent army. (Milnor, 2005, para 6) He also tried to restore morality to Rome by restricting divorce and punishing adultery. (Milnor, 2005, para. 8) Augustus also tried to revive religious practices.

Augustus was very known for this strong choices that really impacted Rome. He was particularly strong about encouraging families to have children and discouraging adultery. This led to extreme changes that impacted laws extraordinary. He was also able to establish a taxation system that allowed a 5% tax on inheritance. The tax would not be paid if family or children were too poor to pay. (Milnor, 2005)

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Augustus was one of the great administrative geniuses of history. The gigantic work of reorganization that he carried out in every field of Roman life and throughout the entire empire not only transformed the decaying republic into a new.     (McDermott, 1938, pg. 41) He was able to be trusted and was purely honest in all decisions he made.

Augustus was able to do what others couldn't. He took under the biggest role and his ruling was under a autocracy. Autocracy was made by Julius. Augustus took the form of dictatorship and allowed to be set under law and order. (McDermott, 1938, pg. 44) He was very tactful and imaginative master of propaganda of many kinds such as creating trust with other lands for expansion of Rome. He knew how to cloak that autocracy in traditionalist forms that would stable and growing generation.

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During his reign, he restored peace and prosperity to the Roman state and changed nearly every aspect of Roman life. He expanded the empire by annexing Egypt and a part of Spain, areas of central Europe, and even lands in the Middle East. ( HISTORY, 2009 para. 3) He passed laws to encourage marital stability and renew religious practices such as an adultery law. He instituted a system of taxation and a census while also expanding the network of Roman roads. He founded a postal service and established a regular police force and fire brigade in Rome. (HISTORY, 2009 para. 5)

Augustus made extraordinary decisions that really helped his people such as being to engage sexual encounters with married women is forbidden and punished. However, with passing these laws he banished his own daughter, Julia, and his granddaughter, for adultery. (Cassius, 1987) Its very understanding to look at the big picture which is what a ruler should do but with strictly coming at his own family by creating a law for it seems a little skeptical.

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Caesar Augustus | National Geographic Society
National Geographic Society. (2018, July 3). Caesar Augustus. National Geographic Society.

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Augustus on JSTOR
McDermott, W. (1938). Augustus. The Classical Weekly, 32(4), 41-46. doi:10.2307/4340381

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Biography of Augustus: The First Roman Emperor - WorldAtlas
Feng, J. (2019, July 15). Biography of Augustus: The First Roman Emperor. WorldAtlas.

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Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life. Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Kristina Milnor, Gender, domesticity, and the age of Augustus : inventing private life. Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Augustus - HISTORY
Cassius, Dio. The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus. Trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert. NY: Penguin Classics, 1987

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I chose Augustus because I really enjoy his time as the Roman Emperor. I also like how him and Julius were related and both roman emperors. Lastly, I found him to be the most interesting emperor that made the most impact as ruler than the other emperors of his time.