Lead ins Flashcards
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Called “Last of the Romans”…
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Flavius Aetius (but also could be Sitilcho, Belesarius, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Valens or Asinius Pollio)
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Proclaimed emperor at the age of 18…
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Arcadius
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Proclaimed emperor at the age of 10…
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Honorius
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Proclaimed emperor at the age of 4…
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Valentinian II
(he could’ve been 2 or 4)
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The only emperor with Visigothic support…
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Avitus
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Exiled to Alba Fucens…
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Perseus of Macedon (could also be Bituitus, Syphax, Congonnetiacus)
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Teutobad and Boiorix…
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Arausio (possibly Teutones and Cimbri?)
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What Burgundian…
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Gunther/Gundahar
9
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Who rose through the ranks…
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Maximinus Thrax
10
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What emperor abolished the practice of…
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Hadrian (practice of circumcision)
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What law abolished…
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Lex Poetelia (it eliminated the nexum )
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Said to be descended from the Gracchi and from Trajan…
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Gordian I
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A descendant of Claudius II Gothicus…
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Constantine I / The Great
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Who became emperor at the age of 13…
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Gordian III (could possibly be Severus Alexander)
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(A battle) in Dobruja
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Abrittus (also could be Adamklissi)
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Near Tarracina…
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Lautulae
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Who drove the Samnites out of Lucania…
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Scipio Barbatus
18
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What king of Sparta…
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Archidamus or Cleonymus
19
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On the Gulf of Otranto…
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Tarentum (Adv Round3 UF 25) or Thurii or Heraclea (think Pyrhhic war at least)
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Killed at a banquet…
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Odoacer (killed by Ostrogothic Theodoric the Great/Amal)
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Pelted with turnips…
during a riot at Hadrumentum…
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Vespasian
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Nicknamed Mulio / The Muleteer
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Vespasian
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What emperor joined the Salii at age eight…
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Marcus Aurelius
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First introduced to Stoicism by Junius Rusticus…
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Marcus Aurelius
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Who became emperor at age 6..?
Valentinian III
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Emperor for 77 days…
Petronius Maximus
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Emperor for 87 days…
Pertinax
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Emperor for 88 days…
Aemilius Aemilianus
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Ruling one day longer than Pertinax…
Aemilius Aemilianus
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On the 3rd (2nd possibly) of June…
Gaiseric or Vandal (sack of Rome)
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What demagogue…
Menestheus (myth not history)
Or Isodorus (a Jew during Caligula I think?)
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What *Magister pecoris camelorum*…
Calocaerus
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What emperor instituted Calocaerus as *magister pecoris camelorum*…
Constantine I / The Great
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Titus Vinius, Icelus, and Cornelius Laco...
Galba (the Paedogogues of Galba)
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Proclaimed emperor at age 6…
Valentinian III
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Defeated at Vesontio...
Julius Vindex
37
Whose mother was Mummia Achaica...
Galba
38
Who stood irresolute at Novaesium...
Hordeonius Flaccus
39
Vestricius Sprunnia and Annius Gallus...
Otho (commanders against Vitellius when holding the Po River)
40
What Batavian chieftain...
Julius Civilus
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"I have made but on mistake" was said by...
Titus
42
"An emperor ought to die standing" was said by...
Vespasian
43
Herodium, Machaerus, and Masada...
Vespasian / Jewish War
44
"*Acta est fabula, plaudite!*”
Augusuts (these his dying words, something like "The play is over, applaud")
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"Noli turbare circulos meos" or in english "Do not disturb my circles"...
Archimedes
46
Castricus...
gave away the plot...
Caepio and Murena
47
Dying after he fell off his horse...
Drusus the Elder (9 BC) or Theodosius II (450 AD)
48
Artaxias II, Phraates IV, and Arminius...
Augustus
49
Replacing his older brother, Artaxias II, as king of Armenia...
Tigranes III (during Augustus. 20bc?)
50
The Cantabri and Astures...
Augustus or Agrippa
51
Glaphyra of Cappadocia and Cleopatra Selene...
Juba II
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What emperor's last words were "But what evil have I done? Whom have I killed?"...
Didius Julianus
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Publius Ventidius Bassus...
Mark Antony or Parthia or Mt. Gindarus or Cilician Gates
54
What ambitious aedile...
Egnatius Rufus
55
Claudia Acte...
Nero (one of his mistresses)
56
Who, the first *praefectus annonae*...
Gaius Turranius
57
Clodia Pulchra, Scribonia, and Livia...
Augustus (his wives)
58
Exiled to Tremirus...
Julia the Younger (daughter of Julia and Agrippa, one of four siblings btw)
(Exiled cause she had an affair with Silanus)
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Who died in Marseille...
Lucius Caesar
60
Who died in Limyra...
Gaius Caesar
61
Who, occupying the Oasis of Djerma in 19 BC,...
Cornelius Balbus the younger
62
The Garamantes...
Cornelius Balbus the younger
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The Marmaridae...
Sulpicius Quirinius
64
The Gaetulians...
Cornelius Lentulus (Gaetulicus) (I think the father of the Gaetulicus who tried to install Lepidus under Caligula)
65
The Sabaeans...
Aelius Gallus (prefect of Egypt)
66
Due to a lack of water...
Aelius Gallus (had to abandon the siege of Mariba)
67
Being misled by the Nabataean guide Syllaeus...
Aelius Gallus (encountered
a disaster in the Arabian Desert during his conquest of Arabia Felix)
68
Segusio =
Marcus Julius Cottius (the Celtic king and prefect of the *Alpes Cottiae*) (note Cottius during time of Augustus, importantly around 13 BC)
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Antistia, Aemillia, Mucia Tertia, Julia (daughter of JC), and Cornelia Metella...
Pompey (all his wives)
70
What widow of MIthridates of Pergamum...
Dynamis (the Russian queen who then married Polemo)
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Polemo and Mithridates of Pergamum...
Dynamis (two of her husbands, Polemo of Pontus was after first one's death)
72
After the capture of Enna...
Eunus (the guy during 1st Servile War)
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The govenor of Macedon, Marcus Primus,...
Fannius Caepio and Licinius Murena or Augustus (if it like all happened under whose reign)
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What Gallic mistress of Augustus...
Terentia
75
Who smeared poison onto figs...
Livia (killing Augustus)
76
While on his deathbed, what emperor joked...
Augustus
77
"Alas for the Roman people, to be ground by jaws that crunch so slowly!"...
Augustus (on his deathbed)
78
In 23 BC, what two powers…
*Tribunicia Potestas* and *Imperium Proconsulare Maius* (these were granted to Augustus)
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What emperor born in Velitrae...
Augustus
80
Who died in Rhegium…
Julia the Elder
81
"No friend has ever served me and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full" was on who's tombstone...
Sulla
82
Publius Salvius Aper and Quintus Ostorius Scapula...
Praetorian Prefects / Augustus (1st Praetorian Prefects, established by Augustus)
83
"primum facinus novī principatūs" or "first crime of the new principate"...
were the words Tacitus remarked about whose execution...
Agrippa Postumus
84
Who was sent to negotiate with Artabanus III in 19 A.D...
Germanicus
85
Landing at Rutupiae, Kent...
Aulus Plautius
86
What general made up for the losses of Julius Paelignus in Armenia...
Domitius Corbulo
87
What general campaigned in 47 AD...
against the Frisii...
and led raids against the pirates of the North Sea...
Domitius Corbulo
88
Hanno the Great, Valerius Falto, and Lutatius Catulus
Aegates Island (after this Lutatius Catulus built Temple of Juturna in Campius Marcius)
89
Boodes and Hannibal Gisgo defeated Scipio Asina...
Lipari Islands (260 BC)
90
The Temple of Juturna was contructed after what...
Aegates Island (by Lutatius Catulus) (in the Campius Martius)
91
Literally meaning "Little calf"...
Vitellius
92
"What emperor's last words were ""Yet I was once your emperor""?"
Vitellius
93
“What king of Rome used the sp—“
Tarquinius Superbus (“…oils of Suessa Pompetia to build the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus”)
94
"What emperor put down the revolt of a priest-king of Emessa..."
Valerian (the priest-king is Uranius Antoninus)
95
"Said to be the first Christian emperor..."
Philip the Arab
96
5 women and 2 children…
Masada (only who survived)
97
What sheer rock fortress…
Masada
98
What divorced husband of Catimandua…
Venutius
99
Elevator to Augustus at eight years old…
Gratian
