148 BC - 106 BC Flashcards
When was the Third Punic War?
149-146 BC
What war was from 149-146 BC?
Third Punic War
Conflict between what two parties caused the inciting incident of the Third Punic War?
Numidia and Carthage
Conflict between King Massinissa of Numidia and Carthage caused what war?
Third Punic War
Who was the king of Numidia at the time of the Third Punic War?
Masinissa
The siege of what city was the last battle of the Third Punic War?
Siege of Carthage
The 3-year siege of Carthage was the last battle of what war?
Third Punic War
When was the Siege of Carthage?
146 BC
How long was Carthage beseiged during the Third Punic War?
3 years
Who finally defeated and permanently destroyed Carthage at the end of the Third Punic War in 146 BC?
Scipio Aemilianus
Scipio Aemilianus defeated and permanently destroyed what city in 146 BC, the end of the Third Punic War?
Carthage
Who was defending Carthage during its three-year siege in the Third Punic War?
Hasdrubal the Boetarch
Hasdrubal the Boetarch defended what city during its 3-year siege from 149-146 BC?
Carthage
When was the First Servile War?
135-132 BC
What war was from 135-132 BC?
First Servile War
Name the two rebel leaders, originally slaves, during the First Servile War
Eunus and Cleon
Eunus and Cleon were leaders against Rome during what war?
First Servile War
Where was the headquarters of Eunus and Cleon during the First Servile War?
Enna
Enna was the headquarters of Eunus and Cleon during what war?
First Servile War
Enna was the headquarters for what rebel leaders during the First Servile War?
Eunus and Cleon
Who was praetor in 198 BC, and consul in 195 BC?
Cato the Elder
When was Cato the Elder praetor?
198 BC
When was Cato the Elder consul?
195 BC
What province did Cato the Elder govern as praetor?
Sardinia
What province did Cato the Elder govern as consul?
Hispania Criterior
Name the daughter of Scipio Africanus
Cornelia
Name the son-in-law of Scipio Africanus, or the husband of his daughter Cornelia
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus
Name the father-in-law of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus
Scipio Africanus
Name the children of Cornelia and Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus
Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
Name the parents of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and Cornelia
Who was the grandfather of the Gracchi brothers on their mother’s side?
Scipio Africanus
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, husband of Cornelia, was governor of what region?
Spain
Viriathus led the people from what region?
Lusitania
During the 140s BC and the conflict between the Lusitainians and Romans, who led the Lusitanians?
Viriathus
What was the fighting style of Viriathus and the Lusitanians against the Romans?
Guerrilla warfare
Who broke the peace treaty between Lusitania and Rome in the Viriathic War?
Servilius Caepio
When did Viriathus achieve independence for Lusitania, thus marking a temporary peace between him and Rome?
141 BC
Servilius Caepio broke the peace between who and Rome?
Viriathus and the Lusitanians
How was Viriathus assassinated by Caepio?
One of his own men was bribed to kill him
Who was killed by one of his own men that was bribed by Servilianus Caepio?
Viriathus
In what province was Numantia located?
Hispania Criterior
During what years were the siege of Numantia?
143-133 BC
143-133 BC were the years of the siege of what city in Hispania Citerior?
Numantia
Who was captured in 137 BC by the Namantians, forcing Tiberius Gracchus to negotiate a peace treaty with them that was later broken?
Gaius Hostilius Mancinus
Mancinus’ capture by the Numantines forced what person to negotiate a peace treaty in order to let Mancinus go?
Tiberius Gracchus
Who broke the peace treaty Tiberius Gracchus made for Mancinus’ life, thus destroying Numantia in 133 BC?
Scipio Aemilianus
Scipio Aemilianus destroyed what city in 133 BC after a 1-year siege of it?
Numantia
Who was known as the “first man over the wall of Carthage,” accompanying Scipio Aemilianus there in 146 BC?
Tiberius Gracchus
Tiberius Gracchus was known as the first man over the wall of what city destoyed in 146 BC?
Carthage
Name the childhood tutors of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
Diphanes and Blossius
Diphanes and Blossius were the childhood tutors of what two brothers, the granchildren of Scipio Africanus?
Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
Whose land bill ordered the state to repossess holdings of public land in excess of 500 iugera?
Tiberius Gracchus
Tiberius Gracchus’ land bill ordered the state to repossess holdings of public land in excess of how much?
500 iugera
Whose co-tribune was Marcus Octavius, which he removed in front of the Concilium Plebis when he refused to withdraw the veto of his land bill?
Tiberius Gracchus
Who was Tiberius Gracchus’ co-tribune, who Tiberius later removed himself in front of the Concilium Plebis when he refused to withdraw his veto of Tiberius’ land bill?
Marcus Octavius
Who were the three members of the commission used to carry out Tiberius Gracchus’ land bill?
Tiberius Gracchus, Gaius Gracchus, Appius Claudius Pulcher
What was the relationship between Appius Claudius Pulcher and Tiberius Gracchus?
Pulcher was Tiberius’ father-in-law
Name the father-in-law of Tiberius Gracchus who was his colleague in the commission to carry out Tiberius’ land bill
Appius Claudius Pulcher
In 133 BC Attalus III gifted what land of his to Rome?
Pergamum
In 133 BC who gifted Pergamum to Rome?
Attalus III
When did Attalus III gift his kingdom of Pergamum to Rome?
133 BC
Who asked the people to make Pergamum (gifted to Rome by Attalus III that same year) subject to his land bill?
Tiberius Gracchus
Who informed Tiberius Gracchus that there was a mob forming to kill him?
Fulvius Flaccus
Fulvius Flaccus was an ally to what early-Republic figure, warning him of a mob led by Scipio Nasica to kill him but to no avail?
Tiberius Gracchus
Name the pontifex maximus of 133 BC who led a mob and killed Tiberius Gracchus that same year
Scipio Nasica
When was Scipio Nasica pontifex maximus?
133 BC
When did Tiberius Gracchus die?
133 BC
Who died in 133 BC?
Tiberius Gracchus
Name the consuls of 132 BC that tried Scipio Nasica for the murderer of Tiberius Gracchus but secretly sent him to Pergamum to avoid punishment
Publius Popillius Laenas, Publius Rupilius
Laenas and Rupilius were consuls of 132 BC, and tried what person for the murder of Tiberius Gracchus, but secrety let him escape to Pergamum?
Scipio Nasica
Name the wife of Scipio Aemilianus who was rumored to have killed him
Sempronia
Sempronia, sister of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, was rumored to have killed her husband. Who was this person?
Scipio Aemilianus
When did Scipio Aemilianus die?
129 BC
Who died in 129 BC, rumored to have been murdered by his wife, Sempronia
Scipio Aemilianus
Scipio Aemilianus spoke against whose bill to leagalize reelection to the tribunate?
Carbo
Carbo’s bill to legalize reelection to the tribunate was spoken against by who, the brother-in-law of the Gracchi brothers?
Scipio Aemilianus
Who helped consuls Laenas and Popilius persecute the followers of Tiberius Gracchus, a friend of Scipio Aemilianus?
Gaius Laelius
Gaius Laelius, a friend of Scipio Aemilianus, helped consuls Laenas and Rupilius persecute the followers of what man, who died from a mob in 133 BC?
Tiberius Gracchus
Name the two supporters of Tiberius Gracchus who took up the commission to carry out his land bill after his death
Marcus Fulvius Flaccus, Gaius Papirius Carbo
Fulvius Flaccus and Carbo were supporters of what man, and took up his land commission after his death in 133 BC
Tiberius Gracchus
What allied town of Rome rebelled in 125 BC?
Fregellae
Fregellae rebelled against Rome in what year?
125 BC
What person put down the rebellion of Fregellae in 125 BC? This person would later murder Gaius Gracchus.
Lucius Opimius
When was Gaius Gracchus’ tribunate?
123-122 BC
Whose tribunate was from 123-122 BC?
Gaius Gracchus
Who was questor in Sardinia (126 BC), tribune (123 BC), and passed the Lex Frumentaria?
Gaius Gracchus
Where was Gaius Gracchus’ quaestor-ship in 126 BC?
Sardinia
What did the Lex Frumentaria do?
Made the state buy and import overseas grain for sale to citizens in Rome
Gaius Gracchus passed what law, which made the state buy and import overseas grain for sale to citizens in Rome?
Lex Frumentaria
Who passed the Lex Frumentaria?
Gaius Gracchus
What did the Lex Militaris do?
Required government to:
- Clothe and equip Roman soldiers
- Shorten terms of service
- Forbid drafting boys under 17
Gaius Gracchus passed what law, which required the government to clothe and equip Roman soldiers, shorten their terms of service, and forbid drafting boys under 17?
Lex Militaris
Who passed the Lex Militaris?
Gaius Gracchus
What did the Lex Rubria do?
Provided the foundation of Gaius Gracchus’ colony Junonia on the site of Carthage
What law provided the foundation of Gaius Gracchus’ colony Junonia on the site of Carthage?
Lex Rubria
Who passed the Lex Rubria
Rubrius (ally of Gaius Gracchus)
What did the Lex Acilia do?
Excluded senators and curule magistrates from the special court used for high-officials accused of embezzling
Court named quaestio perpetua de rebus repetundis - by Lex Calpurnia
What law excludded senators and curule magistrates from the special court used for high-officials accused of embezzling?
Lex Acilia
Who passed the Lex Acilia?
Acilius (ally of Gaius Gracchus)
Who got the senate to pass a Senatus Consultum Ultimum against Gaius Gracchus and led an armed posse against him, killing Gaius and his old friend Fulvius Flaccus as well?
Lucius Opimius
The Senate passed what decree against Gaius Gracchus, forcing his death by Opimius?
Senatus Consultum Ultimum
Who claimed to be the illegitamate half-brother of Attalus III, leading a resistance to the annexation of Pergamum after its donation to Rome in 133 BC?
Aristonicus
Aristonicus claimed to be the illegitamate half-brother of what person?
Attalus III