CLST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Leptis Magna, Severan Dynasty, Alemanni
5 Dec 2014
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Like trajan and hadrian who was his distant cousin, marcus aurelius was from a. In your text 204-1, there is a map of the roman empire and it"s borders. Among the tribes on the other side of the border are the quadi and the marcomanni, against whom. Marcus aurelius campaigned but also the alamanni and the lombards. Spanish words for germany allemange and alemania respectively. Lombards, originally, were longobardi: long beards, settled in northern italy. Lombardia: best known for selling wood lumber, septimius severus, born in lepcis magna in north africa. Julia domna, the wide of septimius severus: the mother of caracalla, she was born in emesa which is today called homs. After the severan dynasty was overthrown in ad 235, a fifty year period of chaos ensued but order was finally restored in 285 when gaius aurelius valerius diocletianus or simply diocletian defeated all other claimants to the empire.
