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Ariovistus may have escaped, but it is unlikely that he retained any position in the citizen-army of the Suebi. When the Usipetes and Tencteri were driven from their lands by the Suebi in 55 BC, he was not mentioned. [16] He was dead by late 54 BC, when his death is said to have been a cause of indignation among the Germans. [17]
The 1st century BC, also known as the last century BC and the last century BCE, started on the first day of 100 BC and ended on the last day of 1 BC. The AD/BC notation does not use a year zero ; however, astronomical year numbering does use a zero, as well as a minus sign, so "2 BC" is equal to "year –1".
Territories of Cisalpine Gaul (highlighted in transparent red) between the end of the 2nd century BC and the beginning of the 1st century BC. Having established an effective dominion over the Italian peninsula, [52] and on the strength of its military reputation, [53] Rome was able to start looking at expanding outside the Italian peninsula.
The Roman Republic in 100 BC. For centuries, historians have argued about the start, specific crises involved, and end date for the crisis of the Roman Republic. As a culture (or "web of institutions"), Florence Dupont and Christopher Woodall wrote, "no distinction is made between different periods."
The name Latin derives from the Italic tribal group named Latini that settled around the 10th century BC in Latium, and the dialect spoken by these people. [ 3 ] The Italic languages form a centum subfamily of the Indo-European language family , which include the Germanic , Celtic , and Hellenic languages, and a number of extinct ones.
Marius was born in Cereatae c. 157 BC, a small village near the town of Arpinum in south-east Latium. [4] [5] The town had been conquered by the Romans in the late 4th century BC and was initially given Roman citizenship without voting rights (civitas sine suffragio).
During the 3rd century BC, a social crisis slowly emerged: wealth had become concentrated amongst about 100 families [117] and the number of equals (who had always formed the backbone of the Spartan army) had fallen to 700 (less than a tenth of its 9000 strong highpoint in the 7th century BC). [117] Agis IV was the first Spartan king to attempt ...
In terms of labour, some 2,000 people would have been needed for 250 days. [27] The 5.5km-long murus gallicus of Bibracte may have required 40 to 60 hectares of mature oak woodland to be clear-felled for its construction. [28] Bibracte oppidum, France, seen from above, 1st century BC. However, size and construction of oppida varied considerably.