Five Good Emperors (Optimi Principes)
Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius ruled in turn from 96 to 180 CE. Writers later remembered their reigns as a stable high point.
Grades 7–8. History.
How it connects
Hadrian's Wall and Trajan's Column are monuments from this period.
Latin words that go with this card: imperator, pax.