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  H102_25 Fall of the Roman Republic, 133-27 BC
Ultimately, the two men came to blows in 88 BC in the midst of the Social War and the Asian rebellion induced by Mithradates.
Greek language was commonly spoken in the streets, and it is estimated that 60% of the urban population consisted of slaves or people of slave origins.
The Allies likewise became discontented and began by 121 BC to demand full Roman political status commensurate with their role in the maintenance of empire.
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  Ancient Districts of Asia Minor and Anatolia
In the 7th and 6th centuries BC the cities of Ionia were involved in a series of wars with the kings of Lydia, to whom Ionia yielded a nominal submission.
Early in the 1st millennium BC it is believed to have comprised the greater part of the Anatolian Peninsula, but at the time of the Persian invasion in the 6th century BC it was limited to the districts known as Lesser Phrygia and Greater Phrygia.
On his overthrow in 66 BC by the Roman general Pompey the Great, the kingdom was divided, the western portion being joined to the province of Bithynia in a Roman province known as Pontus and Bithynia and the eastern region being assigned to native princes.
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 Roman Empire - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
After the founding of Rome in 753 bc, powerful kings ruled until, according to patriotic legend, the Romans expelled the last foreign monarch in 509 bc and established a more representative form of government known as the Roman Republic.
In 49 bc Caesar, who had held many of the highest political offices in Rome, marched into Italy to challenge the leaders of the republic.
By 30 bc Octavian was the unchallenged successor to Caesar and the master of Rome.
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 HSC Online
Sulla was consul in 88, 81 and 80 BC.
In 80 BC he brought in a series of reforms whereby he aimed, in particular, to restore and strengthen the powers of the Senate and restrict the powers of the tribunes.
Caesar: Gaius Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC).
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 History of Rome
The legendary date of the founding was 753 BC; it was ascribed to Romulus and Remus, the twin sons of Rhea Silvia, a vestal virgin and the daughter of Numitor, king of Alba Longa.
In 494 BC a secession of plebeian soldiers led to the institution of the tribuni plebis, who were elected annually as protectors of the plebs; they had the power to veto the acts of patrician magistrates, and thus served as the leaders of the plebs in the struggles with the patricians.
In Africa the overthrow, in 106 BC, of Jugurtha, king of Numidia, by the consul Gaius Marius with the assistance of Lucius Cornelius Sulla increased the military renown of the Republic, as did the defeat of the Cimbri and the Teutones in southern Gaul and northern Italy by Marius after his return from Africa.
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 Ethics of Roman Expansion to 133 BC by Sanderson Beck
In 312 BC censor Appius Claudius got the landless population distributed throughout the tribes, the sons of freedman admitted into the senate, the first aqueduct built to bring water nine miles from Gabii to the Circus Maximus, and the Appian Way paved for the 115 miles from Rome to Capua.
In 287 BC the problem of debt led to the appointment of Hortensius as dictator, and from then on plebiscites passed by the plebeian council had the force of law on everyone and did not have to be approved by the assembly, the classes of centuries, or the senate.
In 225 BC Celtic Gauls crossed the alps with an army of 150,000 infantry and 20,000 horse and chariots.
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 Europa: The History of the White Race: Chapter 12   (Site not responding. Last check: )
By 400 BC, the Latin League had successfully overthrown all the last vestiges of Etruscan rule, and from then on the Etruscan peoples were completely absorbed into the Latini, creating a Nordic/Alpine/Mediterranean mix which became characteristic of the early and middle Roman Empire, with Nordic elements tending to form the ruling class.
The period from 133 BC to 30 BC is known as the late Republic, during which Rome itself was to experience civil strife not seen since the days of the Latini insurrection against the Etruscans.
In 44 BC, Caesar was however assassinated on the steps of the senate in Rome by a group opposed to his almost royal control of the affairs of state.
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 Ancient Rome - Cambridge University Press
Conquest of the Mediterranean, 264 BC – 146 BC: 4.
Collapse of the Republic, 133 BC – 27 BC: 8.
Assault on the oligarchy, 133 BC – 81 BC; 9.
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 Civilization I: Lecture / Essay 16 (HIS 1113 Department of History & Political Science--SBU)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
During this last century of the Republic, between 133 BC and 33 BC, the Senate lost its ability to ride herd on the elected officials.
The last phase of geographic expansion during the final days of the Republic from 60 BC to the end of the century, was primarily the work of the Heroic generals who were so powerful they manipulated and dominated the Republic for their own political benefit.
In January of 27 BC after having brought to an end nearly a century of civil war and bloodshed Octavian appeared before the Senate at Rome and officially restored the Republic to their control by resigning all his extra-constitutional powers.
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 Roman Project Map 5: 133 BC
However, a new ruler appeared in 149 BC and led the forces of a reunited Macedon against Rome.
A Roman army was sent to raze the city, and so it was done in 146 BC after 3 years of war.
Much of Spain was soon to fall, as the tribes that had been warring with Rome since 142 BC were defeated by Scipio Aemilianus in 133 BC.
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 Late Roman Republic - History of the Roman Empire
By the latter part of the 2nd Century BC, the rapid expansion, massive influx of slave labor, opportunity for corruption in new provinces and the continuing development of social class disorder also brought about a distinct new era in Roman history.
One such event, the Numantine War against the restless Celtiberians, from 143 to 133 BC, gave the Romans access to the interior of Hispania, but also proved that continuing expansion was to be challenged at every step.
By 129 BC, he entire region would be annexed as the province of Asia Minor, and without so much as a single battle, Rome gained access to more riches of the east.
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 Attalus III - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Attalus III (?-133 bc), the last of three rulers of Pergamum who bore the name Attalus.
Atallus III reigned from 138 to 133 bc.
In 146 bc, the Roman armies razed the...
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 Rome: The Crisis of the Republic
By the end of the second century BC, the majority of the population in Italy were slaves.
In that year, Tiberius Gracchus was elected as one of the tribunes of the assembly (see the chapter on the Roman Republic for an explanation of the nature of the tribuneship).
In 123 BC (and again in 122 BC), Gaius Gracchus was elected tribune.
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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > 133 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, as tribune, attemtps to pass a law to redistribute the public land to benefit small landowners.
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 METU Industrial Engineering Department
Their independent Phrygian kingdom of the 8th and 7th BC maintained close contacts with the Aryans in the east and the Greeks in the west.
With the establishment of the Galatians in eastern Phrygia the fertility cult of Cybele, the mother goddess, spread widely amongst town dwellers, while countryfolk tended to worship Men, the moon god, ruler of Paradise and the Underworld.
In 188 BC Phrygia came under Pergamum, followed by Rome, who made it a province in 133 BC.
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 The Gracchi Brothers
In 133 BC, Tiberius Gracchus, the grandson of Scipio Africanus, was elected to the office of tribune.
In 129 BC, Scipio was found dead in his bed with signs of strangulation on his neck.
In 123 BC, he was elected the position of tribune, just like his brother.
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 EU10-Kleinasien
Since 2 BC, Rome’s increasingly complex political entanglements with the states of Asia Minor were paralleled by an extension of economic links, which were mirrored by the increasing presence of Roman and Italian citizens in the cities of Asia Minor.
In 133 BC the realm of Pergamon was ceded by testament to Rome.
The kingdom of Bithynia which had already been ceded to Rome in 74 BC by testament, was merged into the kingdom of Pontus to form the province of Pontus and Bithynia.
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Sallust The causes for the breakdown of the early Roman Republic cannot be attributed to a single event, trend or individual, rather it was due to a combination of all three in varying degrees.
The principal and fundamental cause was the breakdown of the political checks and balances, particularly the Cursus Honorum from 133 BC onwards.
Caesar, upon election to his first consulship in 59 BC, was faced not only with a hostile senate, but also a large proportion of the tribunes, acting on behalf of the nobles, that seemed determined to oppose his amendments.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for tiberius
He campaigned (20 BC) in Armenia, became (19 BC) governor of Transalpine Gaul, and aided (12 BC) his...
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, d.133 BC, the elder of the Gracchi, fought at Carthage (146 BC) and in Spain (137).
In 38 BC, Augustus forced her husband to divorce her so that he might marry her himself.
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 info: 133_BC   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ethics of Roman Expansion to 133 BC by Sanderson BeckBECK index Roman Expansion to 133 BC Roman and Etruscan Kings Republic of Rome 509-343 BC Rome's Conquest of Italy 343-264 BC Rome at War with Carthage 264-201 BC
Amazon.com: From the Gracchi to Nero: A History of Rome from 133 BC to...
Empire in 133 B.C. Further wars in northern and Eastern Spain resulted in the defeat of the Lusitanii and the addition of new territory to the Spanish provinces.
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 Rome: The Crisis of the Republic
By the end of the second century BC, the majority of the population in Italy were slaves.
In that year, Tiberius Gracchus was elected as one of the tribunes of the assembly (see the chapter on the Roman Republic for an explanation of the nature of the tribuneship).
In 123 BC (and again in 122 BC), Gaius Gracchus was elected tribune.
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 WorldTravelGate.net® - The History of Fethiye, Turkey.
After the Magnasia war, the Romans have left the city to Eumenos, the King of Bergama (Pergamon) Kingdom collapses, Telmessos, in 133 BC., joins the Lycian Federation and is one of the six most important cities in the group.
This tomb is in the form of a temple built in Ion style, and has a landing with adjacent pillars at the two sides, with four steps leading to it.
In the middle of the leftmost pillar, "Amynthas: son of Hermapias" is engraved in 4th century BC.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Attalid dynasty was a Hellenistic dynasty that ruled the city of Pergamon after the death of Lysimachus, a general of Alexander the Great.
The Attalids ruled Pergamon until Attalus III bequeathed the kingdom to the Roman Republic in 133 BC.
On the interior of the Pergamon Altar is a separate frieze depicting the life of Telephos, son of Herakles, whom the ruling Attalid dynasty associated with their city and utilized to claim descendance from the Olympians.
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 Turkish Odyssey/About Turkey/History/Anotolia until the Turks
After organizing Egypt and founding Alexandria, Alexander crossed the Eastern Desert, the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers and in the autumn of 331 BC defeated Darius's grand army at Gaugamela (near modern Erbil, Iraq).
His death opened the anarchic age of the Diadochi, meaning "successors" in ancient Greek and his burial place is a matter of dispute.
Then followed the rise of a number of independent states in Anatolia among them Bithynia, Cappadocia, Pergamum and Pontus all of which were eventually absorbed by the Roman Empire in the 1CBC.
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