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What did M.A do upon the death of caesar?
Called senate and took Caesar and Lepidus' troops
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What did Caesars will leave?
75 denarii to the plebs and the gardens across the Tiber
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What was Lepidus made?
Pontifex maximus and given Spain as a province
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Which provinces did Antony take?
Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul
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Where were veterans setttled?
Campania - very popular
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What class was Octavian?
Patrician
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46BC
Went campaigning with Caesar and Agrippa
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What were Octavians aims?
Avenge Caesar and prove his worthiness
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When did the consuls Hirtius and Pansa die?
Mutina 43BC
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Who defected to M.A that Octavian thought he could trust?
Plancus
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What did Octavians soldiers do in 43?
Marched on Rome demanding a consulship for Octavian
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When did the 2nd triumvirate occur?
43BC near bologne
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How long was it allowed to stay ratified?
5 years
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Who got what areas of the Empire?
Octavian - West. M.A - East . Lepidus - africa
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What were proscriptions?
opposition's names placed on a hit list, they could be murdered quickly.
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Which class was decimated by proscriptions?
senatorial class
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Battle of Phillipi 42 BC - who was it against?
M.A and Octavian vs Brutus
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How did Octavian deal with the settling of veterans after Phillipi?
Confiscated lands off peasants to settle soldiers
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Who led the coup against Octavians confiscations?
Lucius Antonius in 40BC
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What was the result of Antonius' rebellion?
The murder of 300 senators in Perusia on Caesars altar
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Who did Octavian marry to keep good relations with Sextus Pompey?
S.P's sister in law Scribonia who had Julia
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The Treaty of Tarentum in 37 BC - What did Anotny and Octavian promise one another?
20000 men to Antony and a fleet to Octavian. Reaffirmation of the Triumvirate
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What was Octavian GIVEN upon his defeat of Sextus Pompey in 36BC?
Tribune Sancrosanctitas
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What did Antony do that had the relations between him and Octavian fall apart?
Sent home Octavia and took Cleopatra as his wife and lover
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What did Octavian do in 34BC?
Had two campaigns in Illyricum
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33-32BC - What did the people of Italy swear to Octavian?
An Oath of Allegiance
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When pro-Antony senators fled to Egypt, what did they find?
Antony in a Hellenistic setting - un-Republican
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What did Antony's will claim?
Italy to be split between his and Cleo's children, and he would be buried in Egypt
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31BC - Who controlled the fleets that beat Cleopatra's fleets at Actium?
Agrippa
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30BC Alexandria - what did Cleopatra and Antony do? What happened to Caesarion?
M.A and Cleo committed suicide, Octavian killed Caesarion
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