Numidia

supporters to start a rebellion in Egypt. Thus, Juba II became the perfect choice. A man raised within his own household, who upheld the same values as him, a scholarly mind, militarily accomplished, and with the proper pedigree to wed a princess (as the son of the conquered Berber king of Numidia). With a wedding of such important stature, it was attended by many noble dignitaries and recorded as a significant historical event. For example, the renowned poet Crinagoras composed that, Great bordering regions of the world which the full stream of Nile separates from the black Aethiopians, you have by marriage made your sovereigns common to both, turning Egypt and Libya into one country. May the children of these princes ever again rule with…

50 years after the First Punic War, Carthage had paid off their entire 10,000 talent fee. They then believed that this meant that the treaty was expired. Numidia, an ally of Rome, had frequently raided Carthage because in the treaty Carthage had agreed not to retaliate. Carthage was outraged that the Numidians had been allowed to invade their nation, and in return, Carthage assembled a small army to attack Numidia without Roman permission. This was the opportunity Rome was waiting for. Though…

Rome is surrounded by the Tiber River and the Seven Hills. The Romans began to settle on the hills east of the Tiber during the Early Iron Age around 1000 to 800 BCE. The Tiber provides constant source of water for Rome. Since they are positioned in the middle of the Seven Hills, Rome was safe from the floods of the Tiber and able to defend themselves. The Italian peninsula take up the center of the Mediterranean basin. Italy is protected by the Alps. The Apennines leave two broad and fertile…

Following this victory Rome became the master of the Mediterranean and the only superpower of the region. Carthage had to suffer a war tax of 200 talents every year, for 50 years, in order to weaken it financially, had to abandon all of Spain and all the islands between Africa and Italy, Numidia became an ally of Rome, and finally Carthage became a dependent state and could not undertake any war without the consent of Rome. Syracuse was added to the province of Sicily, and the territory of Spain…

Tiberius’s brother, Gaius was voted Tribune in 123 BC, and he continued his brother’s work. Gaius introduced political reforms. A very important example is the granting of full citizenship to Roman allies. However, Gaius lost his vast popularity after that reform, and was eventually killed along with his followers, just like his brother. Politically, Rome began to realize that the Senate was not as trustworthy as it should be, and could be quite corrupt. The Senate could be easily bribed and…

Hello my fellow Roman Senators, Enough is enough! Today we discuss the issue of attacking Carthage and whether to, or not to, destroy their city and take our pride back. This issue is one that has been talked about all over our land and throughout our people and needs to be addressed. I believe that we should attack and burn the city for many reasons including revenge for our people, it gets rid of all threat from them, and our pride is at stake. My first main point is, the army of Carthage…

places the exception was in the political form of change. So as time went on the Roman classes soon began to compete against one another for higher for higher ranks in the political system. This caused a large gap between the rich and poor Romans. Eventually after several people conquering different places throughout the civil wars a man that went by the name of Octavian made his position as absolute ruler and put political institutions back in place, he then changed his name to Augustus and…

resist the Egyptian army, together with the reinforcements arrived, completely defeated the Egyptian army, Ptolemy XIII was killed on the Egyptian throne Cleveland Opie off bin Laden. Unfortunately, during the battle, Kai Sashi soldiers hit by rockets fired by the Great Library of Alexandria, more than six hundred thousand books destroyed. At the end of the Battle of Alexander, Caesar and Cleveland Opie pull off once two-month trip to the Nile, and then conquered the agreement between Rome and…

Augustine of Hippo was born in Thagaste, Numidia (Part of the Roman Empire) in 354 AD. His mother was Catholic brought him up accordingly, to the best of her abilities. His pagan father converted on his deathbed. He became a teacher of rhetoric and grammar. In fact, he became the Rhetoric professor for the Imperial Court of Milan, which is pretty much as good as it gets. However, none of these achievements truly make him significant. His significance sprouts from not only his life, and his…

fighting force that wasn’t even at its strongest. This victory is not dissimilar too that of Alexander the Greats Battle with Darius III at Gaugamela, where 47,000 Macedonians defeated the Persian army, which amassed to 200,000. In both cases we see two “heroes” from the ancient world, who have each gone down as one of the greatest general’s and strategists of all time. However one of course conquered the world and the other didn’t even conquer Rome. Scipio’s fellow general Sempronius soon came…