10 In ancient Rome, how did the Praetorian Guard influence who would become the Emperor? A. The guards would vote on who would b
ecome the next Emperor. B. The guards would take bribes to make certain people Emperor. C. The guards would listen to who the people wanted to be Emperor.
From the foundation of the Roman Empire until the reign of Constantine in 306, the Praetorians protected – and sometimes controlled – the leader of the most powerful empire on Earth. Like other elite guard units to come, the Praetorian were loyal to the Emperor personally, not necessarily to Rome.
On 18 July 1918, the day after the killing at Yekaterinburg of the tsar and his family, members of the extended Russian imperial family met a brutal death by being killed near Alapayevsk by Bolsheviks
