33 Flashcards
Revolt in Mauritania under Julio claudians
Started when Caligula killed ptolomy son of Juba king of Mauritania put down by Suetonius paulinus under Claudius 41-42
Tacfarinus
Revolted under Tiberius in 17 was formerly Roman now raided in Sahara was trapped by Iunius blaesus but eventually beaten by Cornelius dolabella uncle of sejanus in 24- marched imperial command in Africa
King of Axum
Zoscales- almost invaded by Rome under Nero
Augustus’ policies in judea
Religious tolerance which was met with sciarii or knife men- assassins who spread the civil unrest in the province
Caligula in judea
Almost built a statue of himself in the temple but was stopped by Petronius (ordered to commit suicide) and Herod Agrippa
Antonius Felix
Procurator in judea who was famously corrupt was brother of Pallas 52-60
Pontus Pilate
26-36 terrible procurator of judea who was so bad he was recalled by the legate of Syria Vitellius
Jewish revolt of 66
Nation wide revolt of Jewish population left procurator florus and the legate cestius gallus powerless due to the letter’s failure of nerve in his initial invasion attempt
T. Flavius Vespasian in judea
Took Galilee in 67 when Josephus defected trans Jordania in 68 and then he left because politics
Antiochus 4
Deposed by Tiberius 17 reinstated by Caligula deposed by Caligula reinstated by Claudius 41 deposed by Vespasian 72
Artabanus 3
Ruler in Parthia after the death of Augustus
Artaxes
Germanicus’ nominee for the Arminian throne in 18 under Tiberius
Parthian invasion of arminia
After the death of artaxes in 35 - stopped by the Iberian adventurer mithridates and the pretender of arsaic blood, tiridates
Caligula’s Arminian policy
Randomly imprisoned. Mithridates leaving arminia to be conquered by artabanus
Claudius’ regaining of arminia
He reinstated mithridates
Claudius’ loosing of arminia
Radamistus takes arminia from his uncle mithridates then looses it to tiridates who was loyal to vologeses 1 of arminia
Domitius corbulo in arminia
At the command of Nero re conquered arminia by sacking araxes and then repeating lucculus’ invasion of tigranocerta and installed the new prince tigranes 58-60
Tigranes vs vologeses
Tigranes attacks vologeses vologeses then sieges tigranocerta