roman history quiz

[Gagliaudo]

I've doubt about two islands, so just a try (passing by here ): Pandataria ???

 

[bewareofgnomes]

YOU ARE CORRECT!!!

it is now your turn.

 

[Gagliaudo]

Did Romans take vengeance of Varus' defeat at Teutoburg ? (if yes, where/when?)

 

[pawpaw]

Did Romans take vengeance of Varus' defeat at Teutoburg ? (if yes, where/when?)

well, germaninius campaigned from 14a.d. to 17a.d. in germania. In 14a.d. he defeated the marsi in battle, then the bructeri,turbantes & usipetes in battle. In 15a.d. he crushed the chatti at mattium and later the cherusci. In 16a.d. he defeated arminius himself at weser river and then the angrevarii. So i would say yes.

 

[Gagliaudo]

Exact, man: I thought at the battle near Weser in 16 bC (the place was called Idistavisius, a plane), where Germanicus defeated Arminius.
I'll read your question, I won't answer

 

[pawpaw]

Exact, man: I thought at the battle near Weser in 16 bC (the place was called Idistavisius, a plane), where Germanicus defeated Arminius.
I'll read your question, I won't answer

the info was at my fingertip's--i had posted it in a teutoburg wald thread not that long ago

What emperor was last to rule over an united empire?

 

[bewareofgnomes]

Wasit diocletian?

 

[pawpaw]

Wasit diocletian?

no,little later

 

[MCdread]

Theodosius?

 

[pawpaw]

Theodosius?

yes theodosius the great when he died 395a.d. divided it and it never was reunited.

 

[MCdread]

In the V century BC the plebeians were told a story about a man whose members, envious of the stomach, decided to stop feeding it, and in the end, not only did the stomach die but so did them. What is the context of this?

 

[SanPellegrino]

the tensions between Plebejans and the Senate? IIRC the Plebejans left Rome to camp on a hill and the story was told to made them come back.

 

[Gagliaudo]

I'd say (again) the struggle between patricii and plebei (these last for his own rights), more exactly when plebei left the city and went over Aventinus hill (one of Roma's 7 hills ), and the wise Menenius Agrippa told them his (later) proverbial tale ('apologus')...

@SanPellegrino: really sympa nick/avatar

 

[MCdread]

Gagliaudo's reply was more detailed, but San Pellegrino was on it too, therefor I'll give to SP.

 

[Gagliaudo]

It's SanPellegrino's : "prior in tempore, potior in iure"... (the earlier in time, the mighter in law"... sorry for awful translation ))
so ... ...Up the Oranges !!!