movie day

Today in west civ we watched a video series on this Roman emperor who was insane. Rome had a huge fire that burned down the whole capital and lasted for 6 days. After the fire the emperor decided that they would build in the same spot but make all the buildings stronger and out of marble and stone. Rome did not have enough money to do this at the time and everyone thought he was crazy for thinking this was possible. It turns out he was crazy and he ran out of money a quarter of the way through the project. So he thought of a place in Rome that would still have money and he came to the temples. They had all the money that they offer to the gods. He sent in people to take all the money from the temple and from the gods. After he did this every one hated him and the senate decided that they were going to kill him. One of the senates slaves heard that his master was going to kill the emperor so he told the emperor. Than a couple members of the senate were tortured until they told what they were going to do.