Struggling to fight off the warrior tribes in northern Britain, two second-century CE emperors— Hadrian, and later on Antoninus Pius—built successive walls, which attempted to separate the un-Romanized tribes from the territory under Roman control. Finally, a persisting challenge for Roman emperors...
Scipio Africanus in 206 BC, and Hannibal’s army was destroyed in 202 BC. Three important terms of peace were that the Carthaginians cede Spain to Rome, that they were forbidden from waging war without the permission of Rome, and that they were allowed to keep their original territory in ...
This battle took place in 216 BCE. After this battle, the Senate made it illegal to engage Hannibal in combat in Roman territory. About 15 years Hannibal raided Italy. Scipio Part of a powerful political family in Rome. The Roman general who invaded Carthage. Scipio would be the consul ...
As the various invading tribes moved into Roman territory, they destroyed the farmland and fields they passed through. This decreased agricultural production in the Empire (Spielvogel 186). Then, in the late fourth century, the Huns moved west out of Asia, forcing the German barbarian tribe of ...
We propose that the different geographical distribution of these types of ingot was related to the diverse interactional dynamics generated between the local communities and the Romans during the long process of their conquest of this territory (138–19 BC). This is a preview of subscription ...
(60) the territory was forcibly annexed and outrages occurred. Boudicca was able to rally other tribes to her assistance; chief of these were theTrinovantesofEssex, who had many grievances against the settlers of Camulodunum for theirarrogantseizure of lands. Roman forces were distant and ...
On the pretext that Tunisians hadencroachedon Algerian territory, France invaded Tunisia in 1881 and imposed theTreaty of Bardo, which sanctioned French military occupation of Tunisia, transferred to France the bey’s authority over finance andforeign relations, and provided for the appointment of a ...
It acquired the right to assign duties to the magistrates, to determine the two provinces to be entrusted to the consuls, to prolong a magistrate’s period of office, and to appoint senatorial commissions to help magistrates to organize conquered territory. Its earlier influence upon foreign ...
(though little new territory was added). The brief but popular reign of his sonTitus(79–81) was followed by theautocracyofDomitian(81–96), Vespasian’s other son, who fought the senatorial class and instituted taxes and confiscations for costly buildings, games, and shows. A reign of ...
A grave, rich by the standards of any period, was uncovered at a site called Lefkandi on Euboea, the island along the eastern flank of Attica (the territory controlled by Athens). The grave, which dates to about 1000 bce, contains the (probably cremated) remains of a man and a woman....