HORRIBLE HISTORIES - The Roman Report with Bo

Totten Romans. Hello and welcome to the news at When. When? The Roman era, a time when Rome was the most powerful city in the world, and who ruled Rome became a question of life or death. Literally. Here to explain more is Bob Hale with the Roman report. Bob. Thank you, Sam. Well, you may have heard that Rome wasn't built in a day and it wasn't. In fact, it took them a whole year. The year 753 BC to be precise and there it is, slap bang in the middle of Italy, Rome is founded, and it starts as a kingdom, which means it needs a king. There he is. In fact, there were several right up until 5 ten BC when we get one called talk with no, don't laugh, and he's a terrible bully. So bad in fact that the Romans just get rid of him. Not just him, but kings altogether. Crikey and Rome becomes a republic. Excuse me, which means it's now ruled by the Senate. 300 elected senators, which makes it a democracy, a bit like our parliament with a lot less shouting, and the busy senators have a massive empire to run, so they appoint people to do stuff for them. Lawmakers and governors and prayers and feasters and and all sorts of other people with silly sounding jobs until Julius Caesar turns up and says, wow, there's too many of you in your job sounds silly. Why not just have one person in charge of everything? Someone like, oh, I don't know. Me. Yes, Julius Caesar becomes dictator. He keeps the Senate basically he's in charge. A bit like a headmaster, but with a lot less shouting than Caesar gets murdered. Yeah. And a fellow called Augustus takes over and he decides that the Senate is still too powerful. So he makes himself emperor and says the semi can only give him advice and being emperor is a great job. There's banquets and power and helicopters and money, except not helicopters, and it's so great that everyone wants to be one. People start queuing up to be next. And if I get bored of queuing, then I just kill the current emperor, and take over like this. Brilliant. Until someone kills them, and then someone kills them, and then well, you get the pictures, a lot of dead emperors. In fact, if we look at the in parameter, we can see that in one line three AD, there were 5 different emperors in just one year. Oh, with a whopping 6 in the year two three 8 AD and between two three 8 and two 8 5 80 there were no less than 25 different Roman emperors, 25, and then in The Guardian and guardian and maximus and balbinus and gordian and SNS and saboteurs, and second like a mechanism. Back to you, Sam. Horrible history.