In elections held in Rome in 198, besides the two magistrates who usually chose to Rome and the two that were sent to Sicily, two others were chosen for each two provinces in Hispania. This will officially incorporated the fledgling Empire territories and regulating the powers of those who would govern in each of the two regions taken in conquest. not know in detail how each city or tribal group was connected to Rome. The policy of the conquerors to the tribes was marked in the goal they are set in cities, focusing on those people who was dispersed by castella and Turre. The autonomy of these cities and respected existing only as it suited the interests Romans. In general, Roma tried to remove the heads and leaders of clans, replacing its authority by senior citizens councils, municipal senates species, capable of being manipulated at the whim of the occupants.
Apart from a few cities like Sagunto, Cádiz, Tarraco, Ampurias, etc ... with which, in special circumstances, the Romans signed treaties of alliance, the rest were included in the category of oppida stipendiaria , responsible for providing troops to the army and pay a fixed annual tax and independent of the amount of crops, called estipendium. From the amount of such stipends idea can give us the figures that, for the most modest estimates, entered Hispania in the Roman treasury in the first six years of the second century C.: about 200,000 pounds sterling (about 65,000 kg) and 5,000 pounds of gold (about 1,600 kg). Here are not included sliced \u200b\u200bfew quantities involved in tax collection operation. Besides requiring 50% of the wheat crop and a rate which affected 95%.
No wonder that in the fall of 197 was the province Further, the most peaceful, which were to rise up in arms against the Romans. The spark came out just in the port cities of Phoenician origin Malacca (Málaga) and Sexi (Almuñécar). Turdetanos warlords followed them, among them a certain Cástulo Culcas-regulated and 17 other cities who, for a time, had been an ally of Scipio Africanus) - and Luscina, regulators in the region of Carmo (Carmona, Sevilla) .
is curious to note how the formidable revolt Further Spain coincided with a rising, almost simultaneous, the anti-Roman caráter in the entire Mediterranean basin. It was attended by the Gauls of the Po valley, Macedonians, Syrians ... and even Carthage that, soon turned back, made some reprisals against Massinissa, Numidian king and ally of Rome. It does not take too much imagination to recognize in it the hand of Hannibal, who had family relations with the heads turdetanos by his wife, Himilce castulonense.
Rise of the Further spread quickly through the Citerior, reaching catastrophic proportions, given the much more bellicose inhabitants. The Citerior army was defeated and the praetor commanding him died of wounds. Helvio Praetor of the Further, given the turn that events were taking, sent the Senate a harrowing report and sit on its hands, not daring to step up to instructions and support. The Senate decided to send a contingent of men to the commanding Citerior consul Marcus Porcius Cato, who established his headquarters in Emporion and immediately began a crackdown on rebels Citerior. A resoundingly defeated the bergistanos and sold nearly all the survivors as slaves. Terrified, many people chose to submit, by making promises of friendship and regret to their gods. The subject had to surrender their weapons - as to what you see, was not very effective -. It demolished the walls of cities, forts and lookout towers, preserved only the walls of the city of Segeda, which henceforth will be occasion to speak.
In the next post will discuss what happened in the meantime in the Further ...
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