Scarry Chapter 33 Flashcards
What Mauretanian king did Caligula put to death?
Ptolemy the 1st of Mauretania(son of Juba 2)
Who suppressed a revolt in Mauretania during the reign of Claudius?
Gaius Suetonius Paulinus
Who crossed the Atlas Mountains through the Sahara in 41-42ad?
Suetonius Paulinus
What two provinces did Claudius split up Mauretania?
Mauretania Caesariensis and Tingitana
What Numidian chieftain led a revolt for 17-20ad in Africa?
Tacfarinas
What legatus of Tiberius did he send to trap Tacfarinas, but ended up being recalled before the final blow?
Iunius Blaesus
Who put down the revolt of Tacfarinas in 24ad?
Publius Cornelius Dolabella
How was Blaesus related to Sejanus?
He was Sejanus’ uncle
What king of Axum was suspected of hostile intentions?
Zoscales
Where did Nero order an expedition on in 61-63ad?
The White Nile
What group disappeared into the desert in 6ad and were called knife men?
Sicarii
What governor of Syria foretold what would happen if Caligula put up a statue in Jerusalem of himself?
Publius Petronius
What grandson of Herod the Great, a favorite at the Roman court, assisted Petronius in changing the mind of Caligula to not put up a statue in Jerusalem?
Marcus Iulius Agrippa(Herod Agrippa)
What legate of Syria sent Pontius Pilate back to Rome after executing innocent people?
Lucius Vitellius
What procurator allowed for an uprising in Caesaria in 66ad?
Gessius Florus
What group of men overruled an attempt at stopping a rebellion by killing a Roman garrison?
Sicarii(knifemen)
Because Florus looked on the revolt helplessly what legatus of Syria led 30,000 men into the citadel only to call it off because of winter?
Cestius Gallus
Who put down the revolt in Judea with more then 50,000 men?
Vespasian
What young officer of the Jewish wars surrendered to Vespasian in 67ad?
Flavius Josephus
Who led an anti-Roman rebellion in Alexandria?
Isodorus and Lampon
What prefect of Egypt encouraged attacks from the Greeks upon the Jewish population in Alexandria?
Avilius Flaccus
Who wrote a letter for the Greeks to Caligula, stating they are in the right?
Philo
Who wrote a letter for the Jews at Alexandria to Caligula, stating they are in the right?
Isodorus
Who said “otherwise I shall be forced to show you what a beneficent prince can be when changed by justindigantion,” to make the fighting in Alexandria stop?
Claudius
What two Greeks were out to death after declaring charges against Agrippa II and offending the emperor?
Isodorus and Lampon
What Egyptian Prefect and renegade Jew, repressed a revolt from Teh Alexandrian Jews?
Tiberius Alexander
Who reduced the kingdom of Cappadocia to a province?
Tiberius
What city did Caligula hail king Antiochus IV king, and Claudius again later?
Commagene
What king of Parthia ruled before Artaxes?
Artabanus III
What king of Parthia was crowned by Germanicus and died in 35ad?
Artaxes
What adventurer from Iberia did Tiberius send to take the throne from Artabanus III in 35ad?
Mithridates
What pretender of Arsacid blood did Mithridates get to drive Artabanus out of all the western provinces?
Tiridates
What emperors took and reinstated Mithridates from the throne in Armenia?
Caligula and Claudius respectively
What successor to Artabanus was gunning for the throne in Armenia?
Gotarzes
What nephew of Mithridates invaded Armenia and killed his uncle?
Radamistus
What year did Radamistus take the throne?
52ad
What king did the Romans support to the Armenian throne to get rid of Radamistus?
Vologeses I
What brother if Vologeses I did he put in the throne if Armenia?
Tiridates
Who was responsible for the loss of Armenia during the reign of Nero?
Iulius Paelignus
Who was the Roman governor on the accession of Nero?
Iunius Paelignus
What officer replaced Iunius Paelignus in 55ad?
Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo
What was Domitius Corbulo suppose to do when he was appointed governor of Cappadocia?
Offer negotiations with Vologeses, saying that the Romans would recognize Tiridates if he was crowned from a representative of Nero
Why was Corbulo told to invade Armenia?
Because Tiridates didn’t accept the terms
Taking a bold March across the plateau of Erzerum into the valley of the Araxes……
Domitius Corbulo
Capturing and burning Artaxata, what Roman general repeated Lucullus’ March almost 100 years later?
Domitius Corbulo
Who did Corbulo appoint instead of Tiridates on the throne of Armenia?
Tigranes
Who replaced Corbulo as governor of Cappadocia?
Lucius Caesennius Paetus
Where did Caesennius Paetus lose to Vologeses?
Rhandeia
Who was reinstated on the Armenian throne after the battle of Rhondeia?
Tiridates
Being promoted to generalissimo of all forces on the Euphrates front…..
Corbulo
Who crowned Tiridates to the throne of Armenia?
Nero
After what event in 66 did the doors on the temple of Janus close?
The crowning of Tiridates and end of Parthian war
What governor of Macedonia suppressed a revolt in 25ad?
Poppaeus Sabinus
What group of people expanded so fast in the Asiatic Grasslands that they were overflowing Moesia?
The Alans
Who was governor of Moesia in 62 stopped the spread of the Dacians?
Tiberius Plautius Silvanus
How did Plautius Silvanus relieve the strain of the Roman Frontier in 62ad?
Settling 100,000 Dacians on the southern bank of the Danube
Where did Plautius Silvanus annex a strip of territory to serve as a screen for the route along the Danube?
The Wallachian Plains
Who contracted a system of alliances with the tribal chieftains of Moldavia and some other Greek cities?
Plautius Silvanus
Who overthrew the settlement in Crimea that Augustus established?
Aspurgus
Who did Aspurgus supplant on the throne of Crimea?
King Polemo
Who recognized Polemo of Crimea as the king of Crimea?
Tiberius
Who founded a dynasty during Tiberius that lasted till the 4th century?
Polemo
Who defeated the Cheruscan levies in 16ad?
Germanicus
Where did Germanicus first defeat the Cheruscan levies?
Idistaviso
What group of people of the North Sea coast expelled their Roman praefecti?
Frisii
Who fought against northern sea pirates in 47ad?
Domitius Corbulo
Who led a group of Germans against king Maroboduus in 17ad?
Arminius
What king died in a rising of his own tribesmen in 19ad?
Maroboduus
What two men led a revolt in 21ad?
Iulius Sacrovir and Iulius Florus
Who opened the Brenner route to the Inn valley and the Great St. Bernard to the valley of the upper rhine, which are high roads across the alps?
Claudius
Who appealed to Gaius about the growing power of Cunobelinus?
Amminius
Who appealed to Claudius about the growing power of Cunobelinus?
Verica
Who were the sons of Cunobelinus?
Caratacus and Togidubnus
What freedman of Claudius helped convince him to lead an invasion on Britain?
Narcissus
Where did Aulus Plautius defeat Caratacus in 43?
Rutupiae/Medway
What Roman commander defeated Caratacus in 43ad?
Aulus Plautius
What battle, succeeding Medway, did Claudius take the reins from Plautius and defeat Caratacus at Britain’s capitol?
Colchester
What frontier lines did Scapula and Plautius organize?
Fosse way ans Exeter to Lincoln
What governor of Britain succeeds Plautius?
Publius Ostorius Scapula
What tribe did Scapula turn to to establish a legionary base at Glevum?
Silures
Who handed Caratacus over to the Romans?
Cartimandua
Of what tribe was Cartimandua Queen of?
Briganti
What governor of Britain died in 52ad?
Scapula
Who succeeded Scapula as governor of Britain?
Suetonius Paulinus
Where did Paulinus strike on the island of Anglesey, which was the center of the Druids?
Mona
Who was busy felling the sacred groves and settling the island of Anglesey…….
Suetonius Paulinus
Who, the widow of the east Anglian king, led a group the nearly engulfed the Roman garrison?
Boudicca
Who drove back Boudiccas revolt of Camulodunum, coming from Lindum to the rescue?
Quintus Petillius Cerialus
Who succeeded Paulinus as governor of Britain?
Cerialus
What two cities did Suetonius Paulinus burn down on his raging conquest of Britain?
Londinium and Verulamium
Where did Boudicca lose to Suetonius Paulinus, even though he only had a force of about 10-15000
Lichfield
Who did Nero put in place of Paulinus who quelled a revolt?
Julius Classicus
