
117- Aurelian's Walls
The History of Rome
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Aurelian's Triumphal Entry Into Rome
Aurelian's entry into the city seems to have sparked riots and street fighting not seen since the days of the flavian capture of rome some 200 years or so ago. The causes for this mass uprising were threefold. First, there was the lingering effects of the panic caused by arevellian's defeat at placentia which had everyone's nerves good and frayed. Second was the disruption of the grain supply, like had been caused by zenobia's capture of egypt. And third, we have the massive fraud being undertaken daily at the main imperial mint in rome, which is the reason the riots got started in the first place.
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