scullard 41 Flashcards by isaac dixon

who supplanted Severus alexander

238 maximinus thrax

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rank of maximinus

equestrian

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wurttemburg

maximinus beats germans

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gordian the 1st proclaimed

238 by senate and african landowners he is proconsul of africa and 80

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gordian the second

238 proclaimed by dad

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end of gordians

238 in battle with the governor of numidia

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senate picks after gordians

pupienus and balbinus- 238

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death of maximinus thrax

battle of aquilonia- 238

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son of thrax

maximus

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death of pupienus and balbius

praetorians in 238

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successors of p&b

gordian 3–13– appointed by praetorians

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gordian 3 pp

timistheus- app in 241

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gordian 3 conquests

242- w/ timistheus aginst shapur 1 son of ardashir

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death of timistheus

desease in 243

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2nd pp of gardian 3

iulius phillipus(phillip the arab)

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end of gordian 3

244 when phil beats up

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Pta ascendancy

244

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End of pta

249- supplanted by Messius Decius(traianus) at Verona

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PTA’s son

P the second

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Philipopolis

Taken by goths under Decius

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End of Decius

Killed in 251 by the gothic king cniva at abrittus in the Dobruja( he’s notably Pannonian)

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Rise of trebonius gallus

Recognized by senate after he secures peace with the goths that killed Decius in 251( he’s notably moesian)

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Son of gallus

Volusianus - Augustus

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Rise of Aemilius Aemilianus

Moorish successor to trebonius’ moesia command starts civil war against the emperor in 253

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End of aemilius aemilianus

Killed by troops after beating trebonius

End of trebonius

Killed by aemilianus at interamna

Last Republican emporer

Valerian(253-260)

Start of the franks

Cherusci + chatti invade north in 256

Start of saxons and jutes in brittan

250s

Valerian’s plauge

Reached Italy in 262 5000 dead a day in rome

Valerian proclaimed in?

Raetia

Valerian son

Gallienus

Ingenuus

Pretender to the throne beaten by gallienus in mursa

Regilianus

2nd pretender put down by gallienus

Gallienus son

Salonius

Latinus postumus

Rebelled against gallienus after killing his son,

Macranus

Officer under valerian who rebelled after the valerian’s capture proclaiming his sons Marcia us and quietus emporers

30 tyrants

Only 9 real ones colloquial name for the pretenders under gallienus

The borani

Sarmatian people captured Bosporus in the east

Chosroes

Arminian king assasinated by shapur

Barbalissos

Shapur beats Romans

odaenathus

palmyran nobleman who disslikes shapur

defeat of macrinus

by aureolus general of gallienus in greece allong with macrianus

end of quietus and ballista

taken down by oedenathus after he is given command of roman forces in the area

ballista

praetorian of quietus

end of oedinathus

captures the east back for rome, declared emporer and then assassinated by palmyrans

vaballathus

son of odenathus king of palmyra, puppet of zenobia

postumius stabalizes in gaul

origially coined the term retitutor orbis, galliarum, made a mock of most roman stuff

rebels postumius

put down th rebels laelianus and moguntiacum,

end postumius

then asssasinated, then succeded by M. Marius then PIavonius Victorinus

heruli

tribethat took athens under gallienus after beating the general dexippus

defeat of the heruli

galienus beats them on the nessus

Aclius Aureolus vs gallienus

the former is left in charge in the west, rebells and marches on rome but is headded off by gallienus at milan

death of gallienus

assasinated by illyrian officers notably, claudius gothicus and aurelian in 268

antoinine baroque style

started under gallienus

sucessor of gallienus

claudius gothicus

claudius gothicus at lake garda

beats another alomanic invasion

goths vs claudius gothicus in 269

crushing utter and complete massacre of the goths in the style of ceaser of scipio

augustodunum vs victorinus

they rebel he crushes them then he is assasinated and succeded by tetricus

zenobia under claudius gothicus

expanded massively

end of gothicus

270- disease

bother of gothicus

quintillius-0 assasinated by his own supporters in 270

1st act of aurelian

drive the vandals out of pannonia

aurelian 2nd act

evacuate dacia

aurelian vs alamanni and juthungi

he wins in 271

probus

aurelian's general

paul of samosata

heritic bishob who was supported by zenobia, negotiated with aurelian

emesa

zenobia's forces under zabdas beaten by aurelian

aurelian's seige of palmyra

272- captures zenobia and first conqueres the city but then after a rebellion raises the city in 273

firmus

alexandrian mercheant who rebelled leading to aurelian destroynh the walls

capture of tetricus

ends the imperium galliarum- he defects from his troops at chalonsin 273

tetricus and zenobia after they were restitutored

given jobs and money

death of aurelian

killed by his own officers in 275

felicissimus

coinmaster who rebells on the caelian hill- 7000 soldiers die

manu ad ferrum

hand on hilt- aurelian

aurelian's successor

the unwilling tetricus- a senator- in 275 who beat some alans then died

tetricus's successor

his half brother florianus who died in like a week 275

florianus' successor

275- probus- aurelian's leiutenant

early probus reign(275-279)

secured borders particularly against bahram 2

bonosus

declared himself emporer against probus in 280

end of carus

struck by lightning

end of probus

killed by supporters of carus, his successor in 282

carus' sons

numerian and carinus - ceasers

praetorian prefect of numerian

aper

dicletion unites the empire

in 285 after beating carinus at margus