Examples of Hadrian's Wall in the following topics:
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- Despite his own great reputation as a military administrator, Hadrian's reign was marked by a general lack of documented major military conflicts, apart from the Second Roman–Jewish War.
- Hadrian's abandonment of an aggressive policy was something for which the Senate and its historians never forgave Hadrian: the fourth century historian Aurelius Victor charged him with being jealous of Trajan's exploits and deliberately trying to downplay their worthiness.
- The most famous of these is the massive Hadrian's Wall in Great Britain, built on stone and doubled on its rear by a ditch (Vallum Hadriani), which marked the boundary between a strictly military zone and the province.
- Although his coins showed military images almost as often as peaceful ones, Hadrian's policy was peace through strength, even threat, with an emphasis on discipline, which was the subject of two monetary series.
- Sections of Hadrian's Wall remain along the route, though much has been dismantled over the years to use the stones for various nearby construction projects.
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- These emperors are Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus, and Commodus.
- Moreover, there was a family connection as Trajan adopted his first cousin once removed and great-nephew by marriage Hadrian and Hadrian made his half-nephew by marriage and heir Antoninus Pius adopt both Hadrian's second cousin three times removed and half-great-nephew by marriage Marcus Aurelius, also Antoninus' nephew by marriage, and the son of his original planned successor, Lucius Verus.
- Hadrian was Roman Emperor from 117 to 138 CE.
- He is also known for building Hadrian's Wall, which marked the northern limit of Roman Britain.
- During his reign, Hadrian traveled to nearly every province of the Empire.
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- By the year 400, southern Britain—Britain below Hadrian's Wall—was a peripheral part of the Western Roman Empire, occasionally lost to rebellion or invasion, but until then always eventually recovered.
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- Above all, Hadrian patronized the arts: Hadrian's Villa at Tibur was the greatest Roman example of an Alexandrian garden, recreating a sacred landscape, albeit lost in large part to the despoliation of the ruins by the Cardinal d'Este, who had much of the marble removed to build Villa d'Este.
- Another of Hadrian's contributions to popular Roman culture was the beard, which symbolised his philhellenism: Dio of Prusa had equated the generalized using of the beard with Hellenic ethos.
- Also, all Roman emperors before Hadrian, except for Nero (also a great admirer of Greek culture), were clean shaven.
- Most of the emperors after Hadrian would be portrayed with beards.
- As a cultural Hellenophile Hadrian was familiar with the work of the philosophers Epictetus, Heliodorus and Favorinus.
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- Codex: a compilation, by selection and extraction, of imperial enactments to date, going back to Hadrian in the 2nd century AD.
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- At the conclusion, 300 bishops, who were led by the representatives of Pope Hadrian I "adopted the Pope's teaching," in favor of icons.
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- He does not appear in Suetonius' version of the events, but this may be understandable, since his works were published under Nerva's direct descendants Trajan and Hadrian.
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- Finally, Qin Shi Huang began the building of the Great Wall of China, one of the greatest construction feats of all time, to protect the nation against barbarians.
- Seven hundred thousand forced laborers were used in building the wall, and thousands of them were crushed beneath the massive gray rocks.
- The wall was roughly 1,500 miles long, and wide enough for six horses to gallop abreast along the top.
- The nation's first standing army, possibly consisting of millions, guarded the wall from northern invaders.
- Sections of the Great Wall of China, from the part known as Jinshanling.