What did the roman emperor Trajan do that was bad for the Romans?

Answer 1

Constantine:

• Persecuted the pagan temples.
• Created a culture among the Christians that tolerated the theft or destruction of property from the temples, undermining the Church's long-term moral authority.
• Imposed swingeing taxes to support his sumptious lifestyle, monumental building program and generous support for the Christian Church. It is reported that middle class people sold their daughters into prostitution to pay their taxes.
• Undermined the financial system by devaluing the main currencies.
• Introduced what would become the medieval system of vassalage.

Answer 2

One of the actions by Roman Emperor Trajan that was considered detrimental to the Romans was his costly military campaigns, particularly the Dacian Wars, which strained the empire's resources. Additionally, Trajan's ambitious building projects, such as the construction of Trajan's Column and Trajan's Forum, depleted the treasury and burdened the Roman economy. His policies of expanding the empire to its greatest territorial extent also led to challenges in governing such a vast territory effectively, contributing to future instability.

Answer 3

Well, let's focus on the positive side of things, my friend. Trajan was known for his public works projects, military conquests, and fostering a sense of unity within the Roman Empire. Every leader faces challenges, but let's remember the good he brought to his people and how we can learn from history to create a better world today.

Answer 4

Well, honey, Trajan's reign wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. He may have been a popular emperor, but his expansionist policies drained the Roman treasury and stretched the empire's resources thin. So, while he may have been a conqueror, his conquests ultimately contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire.

Answer 5

There was not anything that Trajan did that was bad for the Romans. Trajan was a highly phrased emperor and all ancient sources had a positive view of him. He was described as just and wise and as a moral man who was always dignified. The famous Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas discussed Trajan as an example of a virtuous pagan. Machiavelli listed Trajan as one of the five good emperors. He called them good emperors because they were benign rulers, pursued moderate policies, ruled wisely, allowed a lot of freedom and were popular. This contrasted with the more tyrannical rule of other emperors.

A legendary episode in the life of Trajan in Cassius Dio's biography of the emperor had been called "The Justice of Trajan." The emperor was petitioned for justice by the mother of a murdered man. He asked her to wait until he returned from a war, but she pointed out that he might not return at all. He made time to settle her case despite all the other calls on his time. According to Cassius Dio "He did not, however, as might have been expected of a warlike man, pay any less attention to the civil administration nor did he dispense justice any the less; on the contrary, he conducted trials…" In the Divine Comedy, Dante sees the spirit of Trajan in the Heaven of Jupiter with other historical and mythological persons noted for their justice. A mural of the justice of Trajan is in the first terrace of Purgatory as a lesson to those who are purged for being proud. This popularised the legend which appears in poems and painting.

Answer 6

Claudius did not do anything bad for the Romans. He had two aqueducts built for the city of Rome and a third one repaired. He built roads throughout the empire. He built a canal from the River Rhine to the sea. He had the port of Rome rebuilt and connected it to the River Tiber with a canal. He tried to drain a lake to create more land to farm, but this failed. Claudius legislated that sick slaves who were abandoned by their masters because they did not want to provide treatment for them would be free if they recovered and that masters who killed sick slaves could be charged with murder.

Claudius was not liked because he had a limp and slight deafness due to sickness when he was a child. Disability was met with prejudice in those days and before becoming emperor he was shunned by his relatives.He was not liked by the senate because he struck off senators who were not longer eligible to sit in the senate and he had many freedmen in his administration, He was also seen as being manipulated by his fourth wife, Agrippina,who was scheming for her power and to make Nero, her son from another marriage the heir to the imperial title.