Romans at War: The Roman Military in the Republic and Empire

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Presenter: The fort here at Vindolanda was the home to 800 soldiers and their job was to guard the wall against people they described as barbarians. Battle at Pontes Longi (15) – Indecisive battle between a Roman army under Aulus Caecina Severus and Germanic troops led by Arminius. Women had few rights in Rome, however rich or poor they were. Women couldn’t vote and were controlled by the ‘paterfamilias’ – the male head of the household. Roman women had very few rights. It was their responsibility to raise children and take care of the household. the Achaean War (146 BC), during which Corinth was destroyed and Southern Greece divided in two provinces. Successive emperors Valens and Theodosius I also defeated usurpers in, respectively, the Battle of Thyatira, and the battles of the Save and the Frigidus.Knowledge of Roman history stands apart from other civilizations in the ancient world. Its chronicles, military and otherwise, document the city's very foundation to its eventual demise. Although some histories have been lost, such as Trajan's account of the Dacian Wars, and others, such as Rome's earliest histories, are at least semi- apocryphal, the extant histories of Rome's military history are extensive. The Second Mithridatic War began when Rome tried to annex Bithynia as a province. In the Third Mithridatic War, first Lucius Licinius Lucullus and then Pompey the Great were sent against Mithridates. [195] Mithridates was finally defeated by Pompey in the night-time Battle of the Lycus. [196] After defeating Mithridates, Pompey invaded Caucacus, subjugated the Kingdom of Iberia and established Roman control over Colchis. Find sources: "List of Roman external wars and battles"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( April 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)