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Nerva Timeline Game

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Summoning Knowledge...

About This Challenge

This timeline game challenges players to place events in their correct chronological order, testing their knowledge of historical sequences.

  • Players must correctly order events from the reign of Emperor Nerva.
  • Each event is connected to the rule of Nerva and helps players understand the significance of his reign.
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  • 8 November 30 AD: Nerva is born
  • 69 AD: Nerva serves as a senator
  • 69 AD: Nerva supports Vespasian during the Year of the Four Emperors
  • 71 AD: Nerva becomes consul
  • 73 AD: Nerva is appointed governor of Hispania Tarraconensis
  • 25 October 97 AD: Nerva adopts Trajan as his successor
  • 18 September 96 AD: Nerva becomes Roman Emperor
  • 97 AD: Nerva issues a general amnesty for political prisoners
  • 97 AD: Nerva reforms the tax system
  • 97 AD: Nerva restores the Roman Senate's authority
  • 98 AD: Nerva adopts Trajan as his co-ruler
  • 27 January 98 AD: Nerva dies of natural causes
  • 28 January 98 AD: Trajan becomes the new Roman Emperor
  • 98 AD: Nerva is deified by the Roman Senate
  • 98 AD: Nerva's reforms are continued by Trajan
  • 98 AD: Nerva's remains are placed in the Mausoleum of Augustus
  • 112 AD: Nerva's successor Trajan inaugurates the Forum of Nerva
  • 81-96 AD: Nerva's name is removed from public inscriptions by Domitian
  • 96-98 AD: Nerva's portrait is displayed on Roman coins
  • 96 AD: Nerva's reign marks the beginning of the Nervan-Antonine dynasty

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