HIST 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gaius Marius, Cimbri, Teutons
23 Jul 2016
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His glory is gained from his hard work: elected consul seven times, battle of aquae sextiae (102): marcus and his army defeated the cimbri, battle of vercellae (101): the teutones (who were invading. Italy) were defeated: considered a saviour of rome (due to the defeat of the cimbri and teutones would were invading rome) Social war (90-88 bce): socii(allies) allies of rome revolt, cause? (maybe unsatisfied that they are not receiving citizenship?, they had had enough from serving rome during all the wars. Supplying the romans : hard fought battle because rome was essentially fighting almost alone, the amount of discontent varied from ally to ally, several communities accepted to stop fighting given certain conditions . In 82 bce, two generals (marius and sulla) who wanted the command of war against mithridates king of pontus . Command was given to sulla (experienced general: marius induced the senate to transfer command to himself.
