90-109 Trajan Annexes SE Arabia & Corinth Christians Revolt

During this 20 year period the Roman Emperor Domitian (pictured) was murdered in AD 96. He was succeeded by the 66-year-old Nerva who died two years later in AD 98 and his adopted son Trajan (who was at the time Governor of Upper Germany) succeeded him.

Trajan was involved in the Romanian Wars, and then annexed south-east Arabia in 106, gaining a valuable trade route.

The Bishop of Rome from 91-101 was Clement I who had been ordained by Peter, the first Bishop of Rome, and gossip had it that he was a cousin of the Emperor Domitian.

Pope Clement I wrote 'The Epistle to the Corinthians' after a revolt among the Christian community in Corinth.