Unable to hold back these new, powerful invaders on their own, the Taurisci called on Rome for aid. In 113 BC they arrived on the Danube, in Noricum, home to the Roman-allied Taurisci. Together they defeated the Scordisci, along with the Boii, many of whom apparently joined them. Migrations and conflicts Īccording to some Roman accounts, sometime around 120–115 BC, the Cimbri left their original lands around the North Sea due to flooding ( Strabo, on the other hand, wrote that this was unlikely or impossible ) They supposedly journeyed to the south-east and were soon joined by their neighbours and possible relatives the Teutones. Some of the surviving captives are reported to have been among the rebelling gladiators during the Third Servile War. Rome was finally victorious, and its Germanic adversaries, who had inflicted on the Roman armies the heaviest losses that they had suffered since the Second Punic War, with victories at the battles of Arausio and Noreia, were left almost completely annihilated after Roman victories at Aquae Sextiae and Vercellae. The Cimbrian threat, along with the Jugurthine War, inspired the landmark Marian reforms of the Roman legions. The war contributed greatly to the political career of Gaius Marius, whose consulships and political conflicts challenged many of the Roman Republic's political institutions and customs of the time. The timing of the war had a great effect on the internal politics of Rome, and the organization of its military. The Cimbrian War was the first time since the Second Punic War that Italia and Rome itself had been seriously threatened.
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