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1. After Alexander Severus' death, Maximinus Thrax took the throne. Maximinus suffered from a certain disfiguerement. Which one?
2. In 238 came troubles not only for Maximinus but for the entire empire. That year saw no fewer than six emperors! In the province of Carthage, the landowners, who were struck by sudden tax raises which were to finance Maximinus' wars, rebelled and proclaimed the aged governer Gordian and his son Gordian II co-emperors. How long did they reign?
3. Opposition came from the neighbouring province of Numidia. Capelianus, governor of Numidia and a loyal supporter of Maximinus Thrax, invaded the province of Africa with his legion. Gordian II lost the Battle of Carthage and was killed. Gordian I took his own life by hanging himself with _________.
4. Pupienus and Balbinus were wealthy and well-connected senators who were elected to a committee of twenty men to co-ordinate operations against Maximinus and after the death of the Gordians, were to be elected emperors. Pupienus was to face Maximinus in an open battle outside of Rome. What was Balbinus' duty?
5. The new emperors were not popular men and the people of Rome were still shocked by the fate of Gordian I, so the Senate decided to make the teenager Gordian Caesar and, therefore, the imperial heir. They also renamed him Lucius Maelius Gordianus as his deceased grandfather, the elderly Gordian.
6. Despite being very popular, Gordian III met his untimely end somewhere in modern Iraq while fighing the Persians, though some ancient sources say Gordian was not a victim of a major Roman defeat, but a victim of an ambitious Praefect. Who was that Praefect who would eventually succeed Gordian?
7. Philip the Arab was not willing to repeat the mistakes of previous claimants, and was aware that he had to return to Rome in order to secure his position with the senate. He thus travelled west and left his brother as extraordinary ruler of the Eastern provinces. What was the name of his brother left in control of the eastarn provinces?
8. Philip is sometimes refered to as the first Christian emperor.
9. Phillippus proved to be a good and able emperor. However he was not very popular with the army. There was nothing left to plunder and men were disappointed with the way he handled things in the east. Many mutinies broke out, of which the Danubian would prove fatal. Who led that revolt?
10. How many years passed between the murder of Alexander Severus to the death of Philip the Arab?
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