For 10 points, name these wars that lasted from 166 to 180 A.D., between Danubian tribes and Rome under Marcus Aurelius.
Peter Heather finds a possible cause for this war in the southern expansion of stone burial circles characteristic of the Wielbark culture. In the aftermath of this war, the newly established Second and Third Italian Legions settled new military camps in Raetia and Noricum. A column in memory of this non-Dacian War stands in the Piazza Colonna and depicts a sudden downpour saving the Legio XII Fulminata. Aquileia on the Adriatic was besieged during this war, whose most famous incident was the so-called "miracle of the (*) rain." During these wars, barbarian tribes penetrated into Northern Italy for the first time since the Cimbrian War, presaging the Crisis of the Third Century. For 10 points, name these wars that lasted from 166 to 180 A.D., between Danubian tribes and Rome under Marcus Aurelius.
Peter Heather finds a possible cause for this war in the southern expansion of stone burial circles characteristic of the Wielbark culture.
Marcomannic Wars