This is my first ever TL.
105 BC: Jugurtha discovers Bocchus's plan to betray him and poisons Bocchus (and thus disguising the murder as natural). He declares himself King of Mauritania.
Late 105 BC: Jugurtha, using the Mauritanian army and his own veteran (however, still small) legionary trained army, takes back Numidian cities from Gaius Marius. People who felt suppressed under Roman rule join Jugurtha's army, and several Romans desert Marius due to lack of victory and the loss of honor.
104 BC: Marius is forced to fall back to the last city in Africa still loyal to Rome that is not in the process of riots: Hippo Regius. Roman senate begins to worry about the lack of victories from Marius as the elections approach. A patrician by the name of Gaius Librius is elected consul and immediately sails to Hippo Regius with the Roman navy.
Librius is assassinated aboard his ship by a slave named Hasdrubal, who was embolded after overhearing that they were going to reinforce a weak Roman army. Meanwhile, Sulla leads a mutiny against Marius and a street war between Marius's and Sulla's factions breaks out. This allows Jugurtha to take the city and take 216 Roman soldiers prisoner. Sulla nd Marius were both killed in the street fighting.
103 BC: Roman navy, missing its leader, arrives at Hippo Regius to see a Numidian flying. Roman ships land outside the city and begin a siege. Jugurtha marches out in late 103 and routes the Roman army using his superior cavalry, as well as archers. A small force of local peasants viciously attacks the back of the Roman lines and breaks their will.
The other consul and dictator of Rome, Gnaeus Junius, meets with Emperor Jugurtha I in Hippo Regius and negotiate what is called the Great Peace of Africa in the year of the consulship of Gnaeus Junius and Gaius Libris*
*Roman years were generally denoted beginning with 'of the consulship' and then listing the names of that year's consuls.
102-89 BC: Carthage is rebuilt on unsalted land and is made a client kingdom of Jugurtha's North African Empire. Mago, a descendant of Carthaginian land owners, is made the king.
89 BC: At age 72, Jugurtha dies. King Mago, his son-in-law, is made Emperor. Carthage joins the rest of the Empire. As the first Mithradatic war is brewing and the Social War is raging, Pontic ambassadors arrive from Shahanshah Mithradates VI, asking for help; in exchange for the North Africans invading Italy, Mithradates would give premium trade to Mago. Emperor Mago delays, wanting to remain neutral.
88 BC: Mithradates VI massacres over 70,000 Roman and Italian settlers, kicking off the First Mithradatic War. Mago's advisers suggest they help Mithradates. The Social War is still being waged.
105 BC: Jugurtha discovers Bocchus's plan to betray him and poisons Bocchus (and thus disguising the murder as natural). He declares himself King of Mauritania.
Late 105 BC: Jugurtha, using the Mauritanian army and his own veteran (however, still small) legionary trained army, takes back Numidian cities from Gaius Marius. People who felt suppressed under Roman rule join Jugurtha's army, and several Romans desert Marius due to lack of victory and the loss of honor.
104 BC: Marius is forced to fall back to the last city in Africa still loyal to Rome that is not in the process of riots: Hippo Regius. Roman senate begins to worry about the lack of victories from Marius as the elections approach. A patrician by the name of Gaius Librius is elected consul and immediately sails to Hippo Regius with the Roman navy.
Librius is assassinated aboard his ship by a slave named Hasdrubal, who was embolded after overhearing that they were going to reinforce a weak Roman army. Meanwhile, Sulla leads a mutiny against Marius and a street war between Marius's and Sulla's factions breaks out. This allows Jugurtha to take the city and take 216 Roman soldiers prisoner. Sulla nd Marius were both killed in the street fighting.
103 BC: Roman navy, missing its leader, arrives at Hippo Regius to see a Numidian flying. Roman ships land outside the city and begin a siege. Jugurtha marches out in late 103 and routes the Roman army using his superior cavalry, as well as archers. A small force of local peasants viciously attacks the back of the Roman lines and breaks their will.
The other consul and dictator of Rome, Gnaeus Junius, meets with Emperor Jugurtha I in Hippo Regius and negotiate what is called the Great Peace of Africa in the year of the consulship of Gnaeus Junius and Gaius Libris*
*Roman years were generally denoted beginning with 'of the consulship' and then listing the names of that year's consuls.
102-89 BC: Carthage is rebuilt on unsalted land and is made a client kingdom of Jugurtha's North African Empire. Mago, a descendant of Carthaginian land owners, is made the king.
89 BC: At age 72, Jugurtha dies. King Mago, his son-in-law, is made Emperor. Carthage joins the rest of the Empire. As the first Mithradatic war is brewing and the Social War is raging, Pontic ambassadors arrive from Shahanshah Mithradates VI, asking for help; in exchange for the North Africans invading Italy, Mithradates would give premium trade to Mago. Emperor Mago delays, wanting to remain neutral.
88 BC: Mithradates VI massacres over 70,000 Roman and Italian settlers, kicking off the First Mithradatic War. Mago's advisers suggest they help Mithradates. The Social War is still being waged.