Test II Flashcards
Lex frumentari
government bought grain in the fall, the. sold it at a fair price the next year
Gaius Gracchus
Tribune 123
*courts bill, Lex Agraria, Lex frumenitari,
Taxes from Asia and Jobs bill
* wanted extortion courts jurred by
equestrians and citizenship for allies
* 121 death in mob killing
Senatus consulum
121 ultimate decree
*Gracchus enemy of state
Jugertha
nephew of deceased king if Numidia
* attempted to take the crown by force * warred with Rome 111-106
Adherbal
Son of deceased King of Numidia
Petitioned Rome for help against Jugurtha
Q. Caecillius Metellus
Patron of Marius
Fought Jugurtha 109-08
Marius
Client of Q. Caecillius Metellus Consul 108 against wished of Metellus Took over Metellus's command 87 march on Rome Proscription
Sulla
Marius’s calvary commander
Brilliant general who took Rome by force twice, defeated Pontius, reformed the constitution then retired to be a private citizen in 79
Redistribution
Redistribute provinces in the voting tribes to be more evenly spread out and more fairly represented
Publicus Scipio
allies with Marius
passed redistribution
got Marius Sulla’s proconsulship
killed in 87
Sulla’s march on Rome
87
cancelled redistribution
outlawed Marius and Sulpicus
held consul election
Marius’s proscription
87: killed political opponents, outlawed Sulla, elected consul with Cinna in 86
Cinna
Political ally with Marius
consul 86, 85, 84
killed 84 by troops
Mithradates
King of Pontius
Sacked Delos after taking Bythinia
attacked by Sulla in 87
86 sent army to Greece, defeated by Sulla
Treaty of 86
Between Sulla and Mithradates:
Mithradates gives up Asia and pays indemnity
Carbo
84 consul after death of Cinna
Repassed distribution
Battle of Copline Gates
82 Samnites attack Rome after Sulla takes the city. Sulla wins.
Sulla’s proscriptions
82: outlawed 16,000 equestrians and many senators, confiscated their property and freed their slaves to make up his body guard. Gave his troops the land of citied that did not support him.
Sulla’s special dictatorship
82: controlled government and changed the constitution (restored power to senate)
Sulla’s constitution
Raised senators to 500-600 muzzled tribunes *could not introduce legislation to popular assembly *could not hold another office after tribune *iteration enforced added equestrians to senate system for governing provinces *raised praetors to 8 *10 provinces restored senate's control of extortion court abolished grain at reasonable prices did not abolish redistribution
Lepidus
Consul 78
Wanted to revoke Sulla’s constitution
Vetoed by senate
Wanted to march on Rome
Pompey
Squashed Lepidus’s troops, after which he demanded to be sent to Spain. Having done well there he shared consulship with Crassus in 70 followed by a maritime proconsulship in 67
Setorius
Rebel roman in Spain who was supported by Mithradates
Attacked by Pompey
Third Mithradatic War
74-69 after King of Bithynia willed land to Rome Mithradates invaded. Lucilius defeats Mithradates at Armenia, having chased him there.