Question

This ruler’s conquests left a layer of red ash visible in the archeological record known as her namesake “destruction horizon.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this queen of the Iceni who led a 61 CE revolt against Roman rule in Britain.
ANSWER: Boudica [or Boudicca or Buddug or Boadicea or Boudicea]
[10m] Gaius Suetonius Paulinus defeated Boudica’s revolt in a battle traditionally thought to have been located on this major Roman street, which ran through London and continued to the northwest.
ANSWER: Watling Street
[10h] According to Cassius Dio, Boudica’s revolt was sparked by forced loans imposed by this Roman official. Tacitus claimed that Rome was to be “made over to” this person in a conspiracy betrayed by the freedman Milichus.
ANSWER: Seneca the Younger [or Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger] (The conspiracy is the Pisonian conspiracy.)
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BirminghamImperial B1010020
LSE BBristol B100010
Cambridge BOxford A1010020
Cambridge CCambridge A1010020
SouthamptonCambridge D1010020
Durham BEdinburgh1010020
LSE ABristol A1010020
Imperial AManchester1010020
Durham AOxford B1010020
Southampton AWarwick A1010020
Warwick BVanderbilt1010020