Emperor+Claudius

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 * Emperor Claudius**
 * **Born in Gaul**
 * **First emperor to be born outside Italy**
 * **Had a limp and was slightly deaf because of a terrible sickness as a child**
 * **Emperor Caligula slaughtered his entire family except him**
 * **Was named emperor by a praetorian guard after Emperor Caligula's assassination**
 * **Was an ambitious builder and efficient administrator as emperor**
 * **Attempted to remodel the Senate into an efficient administratory body**
 * **even encouraged the Senate to voice their negative opinions about bills under debate**
 * **Constructed roads, aqueducts, and canals across the empire**
 * **Built tow major aqueducts that are still standing today; the Aqua Claudia and Anio Novus**
 * **also restored the Aqua Virgo aqueduct**
 * **Conquered Britain, Thrace, Noricum, Pamphylia, Lycia, and Jodecea**
 * **Died in 54 AD and his great-nephew Nero suceeded him**