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Roman forces record success against rebellious Germans in 188 under Commodus’s reign as received

The 188 success is a frontier path of medium confidence on operational detail, high that the year is listed in Livius. In the causal graph this event strengthens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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Context

Suppressing a rebellion can be a humanitarian-offset for provinces under raid and a cost to the rebels. Shared legates remain.

Commodus’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Livius lists 188 Roman victory over rebellious Germans. As with Britain, the emperor’s reign-year is not a diary of his presence in every camp. Dio’s epitome is a later senatorial carrier.

Why it matters

The 188 success is a frontier path of medium confidence on operational detail, high that the year is listed in Livius.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Commodus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactRoman forces record success against rebellious Germans in 188 under Commodus’s reign as received
    2. strengthensDriverHumanitarian Access
    3. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 January 188 · verified

    The 188 success is a frontier path of medium confidence on operational detail, high that the year is listed in Livius.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Livius — CommodusLivius.org · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Cassius Dio Book 73 (Loeb English) — CommodusLacusCurtius / University of Chicago · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Livius places a 188 German success in the reign chronology. Dio independently narrates frontier and domestic disorder under Commodus as a hostile literary file.

Commodus did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorCommodus
  2. contributed toFactRoman forces record success against rebellious Germans in 188 under Commodus’s reign as received
  3. strengthensDriverHumanitarian Access
  4. strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)

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Factrail. (2026). Roman forces record success against rebellious Germans in 188 under Commodus’s reign as received. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/com-german-success-188

https://factrail.ai/facts/com-german-success-188

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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